Poor children at schools in "leafy suburbs, market towns or seaside resorts" are being failed by the education system, according to the chief inspector of schools.
In a speech Sir Michael Wilshaw warned there was an "invisible minority" of disadvantaged children living in what are seen as traditionally affluent areas that are being let down.
He said these children were "labelled and buried in lower sets" then allowed to coast through schools.
Sir Michael spoke about children who from poorer backgrounds who had been ambitious at a young age but against whom the odds of achieving were stacked.
Sir Michael Wilshaw says some schools are "coasting" It was time, he said, to "create a culture of higher expectations".
He said that in the last 20 to 30 years the problem with standards in schools had shifted from inner city areas to rural and coastal areas, especially in the East and South East of England.
There are also a significant number of poorer children in reasonably rich areas such as Kettering, Wokingham, Norwich and Newbury, who are being failed by their schools.
Sir Michael said: "The quality of education is the most important issue facing Britain today. In the long term, our success as a nation - our prosperity, our security, our society - depends on how well we raise and educate our young people across the social spectrum."
He believes an army of top teachers employed by the Government is necessary, used to target schools that are failing and added that Ofsted would make sure that outstanding schools who failed poorer pupils would be reinspected.
Sir Michael was once head of Mossbourne Academy, Hackney, a failing school which under his direction has become one where places are sought after.
The head now is Peter Hughes. He said: "Mossbourne has shown the rest of Hackney what can be achieved. People now believe it is possible. People come and see how we've done it and that's having a ripple effect."
"Today, many of the disadvantaged children performing least well in school can be found in leafy suburbs, market towns or seaside resorts," he said.
"Often they are spread thinly, as an 'invisible minority' across areas that are relatively affluent.
Sir Michael urged the consideration of a "National Teaching Service", with teachers employed directly by the government who can be sent to struggling schools.
Brian Lightman, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) said the problem was that many rural and coastal schools struggled to attract funding and that in the last decade the focus had been on raising achievement in inner city schools.
He said: "The Pupil Premium has helped to address the funding gap to a certain extent but overall there is still a huge inequity in funding. Schools in poorly funded authorities have less money to attract excellent teachers in key subjects, to buy in additional support and to reduce class sizes and teaching loads."
James Westhead, executive director of Teach First, a teacher training group which specialises in encouraging pupils from poorer backgrounds, said: " ... we know that what schools in challenging circumstances need most is the best teachers and leaders and welcome innovative ideas to incentivise this. We look forward to understanding the 'National Service Teachers' proposal in more detail."
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