| Oversubscribed comprehensives are turning away applications for children whose parents have not put the school down as their first choice. |
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| More recently, he has declared opposition to comprehensives and support for the return of grammar schools. |
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| People power has forced councillors to rethink plans to change school catchment areas and bar scores of pupils from their local comprehensives. |
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| Laidlaw has given assurances that his schools would remain comprehensives and would take everyone from the catchment area. |
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| About half went to fee-paying schools and the rest to state grammars and comprehensives. |
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| In England they have been transforming failed comprehensives into specialist schools and city academies. |
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| About a third of Kent secondaries are grammar schools, another third secondary moderns and the rest comprehensives. |
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| Researchers have also recently found that people in grammar schools do better than pupils in underfinanced inner-city hell-hole comprehensives. |
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| So it has been confirmed that almost 800 non-resident children are given places at Sutton's selective schools and comprehensives. |
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| Some of us were going to private schools or comprehensives, so we didn't have to take it. |
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| We do not argue that public comprehensives jettison their professional and technical programs. |
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| Instead, many went to council-run comprehensives and attended newer universities or none. |
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| About 12,000 pupils went on to study at the same 400 selective grammar schools or top-rated comprehensives. |
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| As today's exclusive survey shows, a massive gulf separates Bradford's highest-flying comprehensives from those with lower scores. |
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| Some comprehensives, particularly those in middle-class suburbs, succeed. |
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| All but one of the top 26 state schools nationally were comprehensives. |
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| The snuffing out of that option, by the ideologically driven determination to replace grammar schools with comprehensives, was a quite explicit piece of social engineering. |
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| Most secondary schools in the East Midlands are comprehensives, although Lincolnshire retains fifteen state grammar schools. |
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| The first comprehensives were set up after the Second World War. |
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