grammar school
(chiefly, _, UK) A secondary school that stresses academic over practical or vocational education, until recent times open to those pupils who had passed the 11-plus examination.
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We’re delighted to share that @researchED1 is coming to Bandon Grammar School on Saturday, 19th September! 🙌 Proudly supported by Tralee, Clare, Navan & West Cork ESC. 🔗https://www.eventbrite.com/e/researched-ret…
Iain Stewart, former MP for Milton Keynes, was in my sister’s year at Hutchesons’ Grammar School in Glasgow.
So, math is woke, reading is woke, history is woke… basically anything you did in grammar school is considered woke by today’s maga cavepeople. Latin name: Confederopithicus Moronicus.
First Ilkley screening of @nebriefing.bsky.social film on Fri 15th May at Ilkley Grammar School with Climate Action Ilkley. MP is attending. All welcome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaI-...
Blessings and Best Wishes to the Year 14 Girls Graduating Today from Sacred Heart Grammar School in Newry. An honour to be invited back again to Celebrate their Leavers Mass 2026... Go n'eírí libh 🙏
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(chiefly, _, UK) A secondary school that stresses academic over practical or vocational education, until recent times open to those pupils who had passed the 11-plus examination.
“We’re delighted to share that @researchED1 is coming to Bandon Grammar School on Saturday, 19th September! 🙌 Proudly supported by Tralee, Clare, Navan & West Cork ESC. 🔗https://www.eventbrite.com/e/researched-returns-to-ireland-tickets-1984970259480”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Iain Stewart, former MP for Milton Keynes, was in my sister’s year at Hutchesons’ Grammar School in Glasgow.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“So, math is woke, reading is woke, history is woke… basically anything you did in grammar school is considered woke by today’s maga cavepeople. Latin name: Confederopithicus Moronicus.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“First Ilkley screening of @nebriefing.bsky.social film on Fri 15th May at Ilkley Grammar School with Climate Action Ilkley. MP is attending. All welcome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaI-...”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(US, rare, regional) Elementary school.
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(archaic) A school that teaches its pupils the grammar system of a European language, especially Latin and Greek.
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(British, somewhat, _, dated) a type of school, for pupils who had failed the 11-plus examination, that concentrated on practical and vocational rather than academic subjects.
- 11-plus examination67%
(British) An examination, now mostly phased out, taken at age 11, to select the type of secondary education – either a grammar school or a secondary modern school.
- direct grant grammar school65%
(UK, education, historical) A kind of selective secondary school in the United Kingdom that existed between 1945 and 1976, having one quarter of the places directly funded by central government, while the remainder attracted fees, some paid by a Local Education Authority and some by the pupils' parents or guardians.