selective schools
Entrance exam required
Selective schools are educational institutions that choose students based on academic ability, talent, or other criteria rather than accepting all applicants.
Entry typically requires competitive examinations, auditions, or demonstrated achievement.
The term appears most often in discussions of public education policy, where selective schools contrast with comprehensive schools that serve all students in a geographic area: She passed the entrance exam for a selective school.
- admissionsActs of letting in
- gatekeepersThose controlling entry
- academicallyPertaining to formal study
- testEvaluative examination
- entrance examsTests for institutional admission
competitive · examinations · stratification · social mobility · achievements · teacher · student · catchment areas · performance · academic rigor · exam · placement tests · curricula · enrichment programs · electives · gifted program · Oxbridge · academic excellence
- elite schoolsprivate academies, Ivy League, college prep, Harvard, Princeton
- schoolingkindergarten, preschool, K-12, college, university
- Entrance Examsentrance exams, admission test, admission tests, SAT, ACT
selective schoolscomprehensive schools
Schools admitting all students regardless of ability
neighborhood schools · community schools · local schools · public schools · state schools
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