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Stand Grammar School refers to the original school of that name and the two schools that were created when it was bifurcated, ie: Stand Grammar for Boys and Stand Grammar for Girls. The latter is now Philips High School .
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.
Washington Grammar School is believed to have been destroyed in a fire in February 1930. [5] Three more grammar schools, Crocker, Hamilton, and Horace Mann, were created in 1913. [6] These were the final grammar schools opened in San Francisco as the later pupils of grammar school age would attend junior highs (first opened in 1922) and middle ...
Alan Garner (born 1934) Children's author after whom the school's Junior Library is named. He was the first member of his family to go to a secondary school and received a full scholarship. Whilst there he was a keen sprinter; Paul Harrison Founder of the World Pantheist Movement. Award-winning author of six books on environment and world ...
The Culture Factory: Boston Public Schools, 1789-z860 (Oxford UP, 1973) online; Smith, Wilson. "The Teacher in Puritan Culture," Harvard Educational Review 36 (Fall 1966): 394-411. Vinovskis, Maris. The origins of public high schools: A reexamination of the Beverly High School controversy (U of Wisconsin Press, 1985) online. Vinovskis, Maris A.
Strand School was a boys' grammar school in the Tulse Hill area of South London. It moved there in 1913 from its original location at King's College in London's Strand . Distinguished in its heyday for its contribution of young men to the civil service , it finally closed its doors in 1979 after hotly contested attempts by the education ...
The history of education in Scotland in its modern sense of organised and institutional learning, began in the Middle Ages, when Church choir schools and grammar schools began educating boys. By the end of the 15th century schools were also being organised for girls and universities were founded at St Andrews , Glasgow and Aberdeen .
For the first few years, the grammar school and the new Thomas Rotherham College operated alongside each other in the same buildings, until the last of the grammar school boys reached the sixth form (c. 1971). The last intake of grammar school boys was in September 1966. [citation needed]