The 1944 Education Act legislated for secondary education for all, but did not specify any one type of secondary school organisation. Circular 144/1947 set out various forms of organisation and defined a comprehensive school as ‘one which is...

A comprehensive school is a secondary school that does not select children on the basis of academic attainment or aptitude. The term is commonly used in relation to the United Kingdom, where comprehensive schools were introduced in the late 1960s to the...