A direct grant grammar school was a selective secondary school in England and Wales between 1945 and 1976 funded partly by the state and partly through private fees. One quarter of the places in these schools were directly funded by central government with the rest attracting fees, some paid by the Local Education Authority and some by private pupils. On average they received just over half of their income from the state.

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  • A direct grant grammar school was a selective secondary school in England and Wales between 1945 and 1976 funded partly by the state and partly through private fees. One quarter of the places in these schools were directly funded by central government with the rest attracting fees, some paid by the Local Education Authority and some by private pupils. On average they received just over half of their income from the state. The status was introduced by the Education Act 1944 as a modification of an existing direct grant scheme to privately endowed schools. There were 179 direct grant grammar schools, which together with over 1200 grammar schools maintained by local authorities formed the most academic tier of the Tripartite System. When this system was replaced with the Comprehensive System in the 1970s, the direct grant was phased out and the schools required to choose between becoming maintained comprehensive schools or fully independent schools. Forty-five schools, almost all Roman Catholic, joined the state system, and a few closed. The rest (including all the secular schools) became independent, and mostly remain as highly selective independent schools.
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  • A direct grant grammar school was a selective secondary school in England and Wales between 1945 and 1976 funded partly by the state and partly through private fees. One quarter of the places in these schools were directly funded by central government with the rest attracting fees, some paid by the Local Education Authority and some by private pupils. On average they received just over half of their income from the state.
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  • Direct grant grammar school
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