Direct grant grammar school
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A direct grant grammar school was a type of selective secondary school in the United Kingdom that existed between 1945 and 1976. One quarter of the places in these schools were directly funded by cent
The Manchester Grammar School, the best-known of the direct grant grammar schools, was significantly larger than most.
Frances Buss, a pioneer of women's education and founding head of North London Collegiate School
Bradford Grammar School, originally a large secular boys school (now mixed)
Culford School, the first and eventually one of only three mixed direct grant grammars
Grammar school
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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
Direct grant grammar school
…direct grant scheme to some long standing endowed grammar schools. There were 179 direct grant grammar schools, which, together with almost 1,300 grammar schools maintained by local authorities, formed the most academic tier of the Tripartite System. They varied greatly in size and composition, but, on average…
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)