Less than a quarter of state educated young kids won places at peak universities in 2010/11, contrasted to nearly two-thirds of independent students.
The 40 per cent gap has really increased over the last five years.
The figures, issued today by the Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) department, have appeared just under a week before A-level results for almost 300,000 pupils are released nationally.
The leader of the nationwide Union of scholars, Toni Pearce, said: "These numbers show the despairing need for government and universities to increase support for students from state schools both in getting to university in the first location and in completing their studies."
The figures display the gap has bigger by three per cent since 2006/07, when 31 per cent of state school students were registered as assisting selective higher education organisations.
Pearce proceeded: "Outreach programmes which encourage state school scholars to apply for the most competitive universities need to be accompanied by direct economic support to help poorer students cover their costs while they study."
The report defined the most selective institutions as those in the top third of Higher learning Institutions (HEIs) when graded by signify UCAS tariff score from the peak three A-level degrees of entrants.
Pearce documented students who are less expected to go to university in the first place were much more perceptive to the every day economic stresses of being a scholar, and the very unlikely worth of fee-waiver support against that of normal cash support.
The figures only show up to the academic year 2012/11, former to the government's decision to boost tuition charges to up to £9,000.
Universities have faced criticism for this disparity in preceding years. In June, a communal mobility commission called for higher targets to close the 'access gap'.
Ofsted head Michael Wilshaw has claimed meantime that private schools are 'marooned on an isle of privilege'.
Additionally, a survey recently claimed that less than half of state lesser school educators boosted their students to apply for Oxford or Cambridge. The review, conducted by learning benevolent society the Sutton believe, suggested that teachers own misconceptions could be partially to blame for the disparity in state and personal school leavers' attendance at these institutions.
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