| 1. comprehensive schools
2. grammar schools
3. secondary modern
schools
4. technical schools
5. public schools
6. sixth form colleges
| a. Some of the more traditional independent (privately run) schools in England and Wales. Many of these are boarding schools, where children live and sleep during the term. Eton and Harrow are the most famous schools of this kind.
b. Schools that admit children of all abilities and provide a wide range of secondary education for all or most of the children in a district. They are usually mixed.
c. Schools that provide mainly academic course for selected pupils from the age of 11 to 18, usually leading to a university.
d. These schools were formed to provide non-academic education up to the minimum school-leaving age for students of lesser attainment. The curriculum includes such practical subjects as cooking, gardening, typing, shorthand, woodwork, metalwork.
e. These schools provide a general academic education, but place particular emphasis on technical subjects. They admit children with lower marks than grammar schools. There are very few schools of this type in England and Wales.
f. Offer opportunity for specialised study (the curriculum is narrowed to about 5 subjects) after the compulsory schooling age, often aimed at university entry.
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