A comprehensive school is a secondary school for pupils aged 11–16 or 11–18 that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is as opposed to a selective school,
Chulmleigh College, Devon, is a coeducational comprehensive secondary school with academy status.
Haverstock School is a coeducational comprehensive school with sixth-form in North London.
Silverdale School is a coeducational comprehensive school with sixth form in Sheffield with academy status. Established as a secondary modern in 1957 and converted to comprehensive in 1969.
Manchester Academy is a coeducational comprehensive school with academy status in Greater Manchester.
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recent
Comprehensive school
…wider ranging curriculum, including practical subjects such as design and technology and vocational learning, which were less common or non-existent in grammar schools. Providing post-16 education cost-effectively becomes more challenging for smaller comprehensive schools, because of the number of courses needed to…
Henrietta Barnett School is a grammar school for girls with academy status.
Norman staircase at King's School, Canterbury (founded 597)
Old Grammar School, Market Harborough, Leicestershire (1614)
Frances Buss, founding head of North London Collegiate School (1850)