The Council is the largest in the UK to retain a mainly selective school system, with 25 per cent of secondary school
age pupils attending one of the 33 grammar schools in the area.
Not exact matches
Over 900
pupils between the
ages of 11 and 16 currently
attend Corpus Christi Catholic College, which was judged «good with some outstanding features» as part of its last OFSTED inspection in 2010.
The study said any advantages gained by
pupils attending free schools in Sweden failed to translate into «greater educational success» beyond the
age of 16.
That right vouchsafes to families the options of private schooling and home schooling but not of no schooling, for it is balanced by «high duty» and by the «power of the state,» as recognized in the same Court decision, to «reasonably to regulate all schools, to inspect, supervise and examine them, their teachers and
pupils; to require that all children of proper
age attend some school, that teachers shall be of good moral character and patriotic disposition, that certain studies plainly essential to good citizenship must be taught, and that nothing be taught which is manifestly inimical to the public welfare» (emphasis added).
«Take two people of the same ability at
age 11 and with the same parental background, track them forward, and the
pupil who
attends independent school is likely to earn substantially more,» he said.
In 1960, at
age six, Bridges was the first black
pupil to
attend a formerly segregated school in New Orleans.
Between the
ages of 11 and 17 he
attended the Royal Academy Schools, becoming the youngest - ever
pupil.