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Grammar Schools Archive

I went to grammar and private schools – selective education saved me

It is a far better system than our blanket one-size-fits-all state education. Why shouldn’t parents spend their money on what they feel is best?

King Edward VI: Educating for generations

King Edward VI college was granted a charter in 1552 making it a high standard grammar school and later a successful sixth from college in 1975.

Essex council urged to do more to help children get into grammar schools

A Southend councillor has called for more to be done to get children into the city's four grammar schools

What left and right get wrong about grammar schools

It was their liberal curricula that made grammar schools so successful

Colchester’s most subscribed secondary schools for 2025

FIGURES have revealed the most in-demand secondary schools in Colchester for children starting this September.

St Benedict’s pupils have 11-plus entrance exam scrapped

ST BENEDICT’S School in Ealing has decided that pupils in the junior school will no longer need to sit the 11-plus entrance exam for transferring to...

Is attending a grammar school bad for your mental health?

Research has shown pupils compare themselves academically to their school peers. For those in grammar schools, this will mean comparing themselves against a disproportionate number of...

Ilkley Grammar School rated ‘outstanding’ in all areas

A GRAMMAR school in the Bradford district has been rated as 'outstanding' in all areas. 

Outstanding Torquay grammar school ‘revolutionises’ 11-plus policy

The headteacher changed the school's admissions test last year

Demand for England’s grammar schools falls – despite VAT on school fees

Ending tax exemption for private education has not led to influx at selective secondaries predicted by critics

I sent one child to private school and the other to a grammar – this is the real difference

Our daughter, who was often overlooked in her state primary, in a class of 32 children, has come into her own at the local prep school...

Government to have final say over Co-ed decision for Chatham Grammar, Holcombe Grammar, and Fort Pitt Grammar School

The government will have the final say over whether several single-sex grammar schools can start admitting both boys and girls.