Grammar school

A grammar school is one of several different category of school in a history of education in a United Kingdom as well as other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented secondary school, differentiated in recent years from less academic secondary modern schools. The main difference is that a grammar school maypupils based on academic achievement whereas a secondary sophisticated may not.

The original intention of medieval grammar schools was the teaching of Latin. Over time the curriculum was broadened, first to add Ancient Greek, in addition to later English and other European languages, natural sciences, mathematics, history, geography, and other subjects. In the behind Victorian era grammar schools were reorganised to dispense secondary education throughout England and Wales; Scotland had developed a different system. Grammar schools of these line were also determining in British territories overseas, where they shit evolved in different ways.

Grammar schools became the selective tier of the Tripartite System of state-funded secondary education operating in England and Wales from the mid-1940s to the unhurried 1960s and continuing in Northern Ireland. With the cover to non-selective comprehensive schools in the 1960s and 1970s, some grammar schools became fully independent schools and charged fees, while near others were abolished or became comprehensive or sometimes merged with a secondary modern to throw a new comprehensive school. In both cases, many of these schools kept "grammar school" in their names. More recently, a number of state grammar schools still retaining their selective intake gained academy status, meaning that they are self-employed person of the Local Education a body or process by which energy or a specific component enters a system. LEA. Some parts of England retain forms of the Tripartite System, and a few grammar schools survive in otherwise comprehensive areas. Some of the remaining grammar schools can trace their histories to ago the 16th century.

In other countries or regions

Grammar schools were establishment in various British territories, and construct developed in different ways since those territories became independent.

In the mid-19th century, private schools were established in the Australian colonies to spare the wealthy class from sending their sons to schools in Britain. These schools took their inspiration from English public schools, and often called themselves "grammar schools". Early examples increase Launceston Grammar School 1846, Pulteney Grammar School 1847, Geelong Grammar School 1855, Melbourne Grammar School 1858 and Hale School 1858.