Talk:List of direct grant grammar schools

De La Salle College, Sheffield

It seems that this school was merged with the much larger St Paul's Catholic School in 1977 to form All Saints Catholic High School, Sheffield. The site was closed soon after and is now housing (College Close, College Court and De La Salle Drive). However I have no good reference for this. Kanguole 12:20, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Notre Dame High School, Manchester

was apparently located in Bignor Street, Cheetham Hill. Kanguole 12:38, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

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Direct grant schools in Bristol in the 1970s

Hi,

I realise the list is taken from 1966 Hansard, which ought to be accurate for that date at least, but it doesn't represent the 6 direct grant schools in Bristol in the 1970s correctly. (I attended one of them from 1970 until it became an independent school in 1976.)

The six were: Redland High School, Redmaids, Bristol Grammar, Cathedral, QEH and Colston's Girls School.

Colston Girls School is now called Montpelier High and records no history of the school under its former name on their website: Https://www.montpschool.org/1509/how-we-became-montpelier-high-school. Nonetheless, when I did the direct grant exam in about 1969 or 1970 it was for entrance to Redland, Redmaids and Colston Girls, and BGS, QEH and Cathedral for the boys. (Colston Boys was an entirely separate private/public school.)

Colston Girl's School should be on the list, for completeness. Has Montpelier School asked for all references to the former school name to be removed from Wiki? If so, a footnote should be added to this article saying some other schools were direct grant schools but have asked to be removed from the list.

I don't remember St Brendans and La Retraite being direct grant schools in the 1970s - but maybe they were in a different category, being Catholic schools? — Preceding unsigned comment added by HighgateExpert (talk • contribs) 11:54, 18 April 2022 (UTC)

The article links Hansards with lists of direct grant grammar schools from 1946, 1965, 1966, 1976 and 1978. The 1946 list reports on the initial setting up of the scheme, and lists the following six schools in Bristol:

Christian Brothers' (later St. Brendan's), La Retraite, Bristol Grammar, Bristol Cathedral, Queen Elizabeth's Hospital and Red Maids'

It further states that Redland High and Colston Girls', as former recipients of the direct grant, had applied for the scheme and been rejected, and that Clifton High and Colston Boys' had opted out, becoming independent. The list was re-opened between 1957 and 1961, and the other Hansard reflect that state, with 15 additional schools, including Red Maids'. None of those lists mention Colston Girls'. St. Brendan's joined the state system in 1979. La Retraite was refused by the state system at that time and closed.

There were also a number of independent day schools who had a large proportion of their places funded by the LEA, which made them similar to direct grant grammar schools, though legally they were a distinct group. Kanguole 12:58, 18 April 2022 (UTC)