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Two schools (Chatham House Grammar School and Clarendon House Grammar School) merged in 2013. [6] This list does not include former direct grant grammar schools which elected to remain independent, often retaining the title grammar school. For such schools see the list of direct grant grammar schools.
The original Free Grammar School of Thomas Conyers was in the grounds of Yarm Parish Church, but transferred to a site off The Spital in 1884. [1] In 1977, the school moved to its present site on Green Lane when it became a comprehensive school. The fee-paying Yarm School was founded on the site at The Spital in the following year. [2]
Most of the schools in the local area enter their qualifying students into the 11+ exams. [7] The school does have a catchment area where pupils living nearby are prioritised over those living further away. The priority catchment area is defined as the Postal addresses of WA13/WA14/WA15/M33 and M23 which lie within the Trafford Local Authority.
Ripon was the first and only school catchment area in England in which parents voted to keep a selective school in March 2000 by 1,493 to 747. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] [ 41 ] Even the head of the neighbouring secondary modern school , Ripon College , Paul Lowery was in favour of keeping the selection system as it was, which contributed to the proposal's ...
Nonsuch High School is an all-girls' grammar school with an academy status, located in Cheam, in the borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, England, on the border of the London Borough of Sutton, and standing in 22 acres (89,000 m 2) of grounds on the edge of Nonsuch Park. The school is a specialist science college and languages school.
The school is partially selective by means of an entrance examination; roughly a third of pupils are selected based on academic ability, while others are chosen because of musical skills, having a sibling at the school or living in the school's catchment area (which includes Islington, from where 20 pupils are admitted yearly because the school ...
The school was founded in 1928, as Wolstanton County Grammar School, as a replacement for The Orme Middle School, which closed in 1927. The grammar school was originally designed for 500 male students from a catchment area that included Staffordshire and the neighbouring parts of Cheshire. [2] In 1977 the school merged with Watlands Secondary ...
The school educates children within its catchment area. Pupils are between 11 and 16 year old (i.e. in school years 7 to 11). The acting headteacher was Allan Cottle (took over from Michelle Prentice in February 2024) at the time of the Ofsted inspection report in 2024 which described the school's overall effectiveness as inadequate. [1]