comprehensive schools
Non-selective public institutions
Comprehensive schools are public secondary schools that admit students of all abilities, without selective entrance examinations.
The term is primarily British, describing the system that largely replaced grammar schools and secondary moderns in the mid-20th century.
The goal was to provide equal educational opportunity regardless of academic aptitude: She attended the local comprehensive.
Available to all
- secondaryLesser in rank
- governmentAuthority over a state
- tuition-freeNo cost for instruction
- maintainedKept in condition
Without preference or distinction
- mainstreamingIncluding in standard settings
- coeducationTeaching all genders together
- integrationCombining into a whole
- accessibilityEase of approach
unstreamed · neighbourhood · catchment · diversity · equitable · egalitarian · welcoming · barrier-free
UK secondary school exams
- A-levelsBritish secondary school qualifications
- year-groupStudents of same grade
- governorsState or provincial leaders
- uniformIdentical throughout
public
Available to all
- secondaryLesser in rank
- governmentAuthority over a state
- tuition-freeNo cost for instruction
maintained · council · municipal · district
nonselective
Without preference or distinction
- mainstreamingIncluding in standard settings
- coeducationTeaching all genders together
- integrationCombining into a whole
accessibility · unstreamed · neighbourhood · catchment · diversity · equitable · egalitarian · welcoming · barrier-free · multicultural
GCSEs
UK secondary school exams
- A-levelsBritish secondary school qualifications
- year-groupStudents of same grade
- governorsState or provincial leaders
uniform · assembly · pastoral · tripartite
- educationeducation, teachers, students, learning, teaching
- British educationprimary education, secondary education, national curriculum, sixth form, A-levels
- Irish EducationDepartment of Education, points system, first year, grinds, DCU
- UK EducationGCSE, GCSEs, SATs, core subjects, maths
- UK Schoolsacademies, sixth form, academy
- German Educationkindergarten, education ministry, education policy, technical universities, research universities
comprehensive schoolsgrammar schools
Admission-by-exam secondary institutions
selective schools · elite schools · magnet schools · technical schools · gymnasium
comprehensive schoolsprivate schools
Tuition-charging educational institutions
independent schools · public schools · prep schools · Eton · Winchester
comprehensive, school, comprehensively, comprehensiveness, comprehend, comprehends, comprehended, comprehending, comprehensible