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Henrietta Barnett School is a grammar school for girls with academy status.. 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 recently an academically oriented selective secondary school.
There are also a number of isolated grammar schools, which admit the candidates who score highest on their entry tests. [7] [8] The remaining 163 English state grammar schools are listed here grouped by region (from north to south) and Local Education Authority. There are no remaining state grammar schools in North East England. The gender ...
The history of education in England is documented from Saxon settlement of England, and the setting up of the first cathedral schools in 597 and 604.. Education in England remained closely linked to religious institutions until the nineteenth century, although charity schools and "free grammar schools", which were open to children of any religious beliefs, became more common in the early ...
Brigg Grammar School (1669), since 1976 Sir John Nelthorpe School; Chard Grammar School (1671) Midhurst Rother College founded as Midhurst Grammar School (1672) The Harvey Grammar School, Folkestone (1674) Reigate Grammar School (1675) Lady Boswell's Church of England Primary School, first state primary school (1675) The John Roan School (1677)
This is a list of some of the endowed schools in England and Wales existing in the early part of the 19th century.It is based on the antiquarian Nicholas Carlisle's survey of "Endowed Grammar Schools" published in 1818 [1] with descriptions of 475 schools [2] but the comments are referenced also to the work of the Endowed Schools Commission half a century later.
The current school was originally two grammar schools. The boys' school was founded in 1677 and the girls' school in 1877 through a charitable endowment by John Roan, Yeoman of Harriers to King Charles I, who left a substantial amount in his Will:
Ashbourne Free Grammar School. Free grammar schools were schools which usually operated under the jurisdiction of the church in pre-modern England.Education had long been associated with religious institutions since a cathedral grammar school was established at Canterbury under the authority of St Augustine's church and King Ethelbert at the end of the 6th century. [1]
Reading School is a state grammar school for boys with academy status in the English town of Reading, the county of Berkshire.It traces its history back to the school of Reading Abbey and is, thus, one of the oldest schools in England, although it closed for a few years in the 1860s.