In the United Kingdom, private schools are schools that require fees for admission and enrollment. Some have financial endowments and most are governed by a board of directors consisting of school gov
Merchant Taylors' School (1561) is one of the nine Clarendon Commission schools.
Warwick School (914) is one of the oldest private schools in Britain.
Rossall School (1844)
Culford School (1873), a former 'direct grant' school
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
Private schools in the United Kingdom
…group for private school industry, claimed that their members schools contributed £16.5 billion to gross value added (GVA) in Britain. Some former grammar schools converted to a private fee-charging model following the 1965 Circular 10/65 and the subsequent cessation in 1975 of government funding support for…
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)