Definitions for comprehensive school
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1. comprehensive school, composite schoolnoun

   a large British or Canadian secondary school for children of all abilities

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1. comprehensive schoolnoun

   a normal secondary school, accepting pupils of all abilities; replaced the secondary modern schools and grammar schools

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1. Comprehensive school

   A comprehensive school typically is a secondary school for pupils aged approximately 11–18, that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude, in contrast to a selective school system where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria, usually academic performance. The term is commonly used in relation to England and Wales, where comprehensive schools were introduced as state schools on an experimental basis in the 1940s and became more widespread from 1965. They may be part of a local education authority or be a self governing academy or part of a multi-academy trust. About 90% of English secondary school pupils attend a comprehensive school (academy schools, community schools, faith schools, foundation schools, free schools, studio schools, university technical colleges, state boarding schools, City Technology Colleges, etc). Specialist schools may also select up to 10% of their intake for aptitude in their specialism. A school may have a few specialisms, like arts (media, performing arts, visual arts), business and enterprise, engineering, humanities, languages, mathematics, computing, music, science, sports, and technology. They are not permitted to select on academic ability generally.There were over 24,323 schools in England in 2018. There were 391 nurseries, 16,769 primary schools, 3,448 secondary schools, 2,319 independent schools, 1,044 special schools and 352 pupil referral units (PRUs). In Wales there were 1,569 schools. There were 9 nursery schools, 1,238 primary schools, 19 middle schools, 187 secondary schools, 75 independent schools and 41 special schools. Comprehensive schools correspond broadly to the public school in the United States, Canada and Australia.

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1. comprehensive school

   A comprehensive school is a type of school that is publicly funded and designed to provide a broad education to all students, regardless of their ability or aptitude, usually for children aged 11 to 16 or 18. These schools do not select students based on academic achievement or aptitude, making the education system more inclusive. The curriculum in a comprehensive school typically covers academic, vocational, and technical subjects.

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1. Comprehensive school

   Comprehensive schools are primarily about providing an entitlement curriculum to all children without selection either due to financial considerations or attainment. A consequence of that is a wider ranging curriculum that includes practical subjects such as design and technology and vocational learning that was less common or non-existent in grammar schools. Providing economic post 16 provision becomes more challenging for comprehensive schools because of the number of courses needed to cover a broader curriculum with comparatively fewer students. This is why schools have tended to get larger and many local authorities organised secondary education into 11-16 schools with the post 16 provision provided by Sixth Form and Further Education Colleges. Comprehensive schools do not select their intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude but there are demographic reasons why the attainment profiles of different schools varies considerably. In addition, government initiatives such as the City Technology Colleges and Specialist schools programmes make the comprehensive ideal less certain. In these schools children could be selected on the basis of curriculum aptitude related to the school's specialism even though the schools to take quotas from each quartile of the attainment range to ensure they were not selective by attainment. A problem with this is whether the quotas should be taken from a normal distribution or from the specific distribution of attainment in the immediate catchment area. In the selective school system admission is dependent on selection criteria, most commonly a cognitive test or tests. Although comprehensive schools were introduced to England and Wales, in 1965 164 selective grammar schools are still in operation. This is a very small number compared to approximately 3500 state secondary schools in England. About 90% of British pupils attend comprehensive schools. Comprehensive schools correspond broadly to the German Gesamtschule and to the high school in the United States and Canada.

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   The numerical value of comprehensive school in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

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   The numerical value of comprehensive school in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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