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The table shows the Proportions of Pupils Attending Four Secondary School Types Between Between 2000 and 2009.

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

Secondary School Attendance

	2000	2005	2009
Specialist Schools	12%	11%	10%
Grammar Schools	24%	19%	12%
Voluntary-controlled Schools	52%	38%	20%
Community Schools	12%	32%	58%

The table acquaints some information about the percentage of pupils' attendance in four types of secondary school from 2000 to 2009. A brief examination of the table reveals that during the period of 9 years, the rate of students' participation increased in community schools.Althought the other three types of schools decreased in the given period

To begin with, the percent of schoolchilds' participation in the specialist schools started from 12 percent in the year 2000. However, it gradually fell down to 10 percent after 9 years in 2009. In addition to this, the proportion of attendance in grammar schools started from 24 percent in the year 2000, but after this year, it slumped to 12 percent, while the rate of attendance in voluntary-controlled schools dramatically fell down from 52 percent to 20 percent in the given period.

In sharp contrast to the other three school types, the rate of participation in Community schools had a proliferateing trend from 2000 to 2009. The student attending percentage in Community schools increased steadily from 12%, first to 32% and second to 58% in the years 2000, 2005 and 2009, respectively.