Types of School
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- State-funded comprehensive schoolsThe state-funded comprehensive schools are open to everyone regardless of their gender, class, ethnicity, disability, academic achievements.Their aim is to provide the same education to everyone.
- Independent/private schoolsThe independent/ private schools set their own curriculum and they are selective. In other words, the pupils that are admitted need to match specific criteria.Parents are paying fees and the schools are funded by investors and parents sometimes.
- AcademiesAcademies are usually failed schools taken over by businesses.They work in collaboration with local authorities and the government.They can use their own timetables, curriculum, teachers’ pay.
- Special schoolsSpecial schools are schools set up to admit pupils who have been given a statement of special educational needs (SEN) after they have been assessed.They can be funded by the local authorities and others can be independent.These schools have pupils with both learning and physical disabilities.
- Specialist schoolsSpecialist schools existed until 2010.They usually had an emphasis on specific subjects.They received extra funding for these subjects but then they got replaced by academies and free schools.
- Faith schoolsFaith schools are like state schools with the difference that they focus on a specific religion.They might have specific criteria to be admitted and they might have different policies for their members of staff.
- Grammar schoolsGrammar schools select their pupils based on academic ability.Before they get admitted pupils need to sit the 11 plus exam.
- Free schoolsFree schools are set up by charities, teachers, and the community after parents have asked for it.They are funded by the government.Free schools have greater control over teachers’ pay, curriculum and generally the school’s finances.
- Selective schoolsA selective school is a school where students are admitted on the basis of selection criteria, these are usually academic.