A community school in England and Wales is a type of state-funded school in which the local education authority employs the school's staff, is responsible for the school's admissions and owns the school's estate. The formal use of this name to describe a school derives from the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 .
11-406: (Redirected from Community School ) Community school may refer to: Community school (England and Wales) , a type of state-funded school in which the local education authority employs the school's staff, is responsible for the school's admissions and owns the school's estate Community school (Ireland) , a type of secondary school funded directly by
22-684: A grammar school type education to a small sector of the school age population. The majority of children were educated in an elementary school until the then school leaving age of 14. The name 'county school' was prestigious and remained in common usage to describe local grammar schools after 1944. Many schools retain the word 'county' in their name whether still under local authority control or moved to academy status. Examples include Chelmsford County High School for Girls , Enfield County School , Ilford County High School , Guildford County School , Wallington County Grammar School . Local authority maintained schools were renamed community schools in
33-669: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Community school (England and Wales) In the mid-19th century, government involvement in schooling consisted of annual grants to the National Society for Promoting Religious Education and the British and Foreign School Society (BFSS) to support the "voluntary schools" that they ran, and monitoring inspections of these schools. The Elementary Education Act 1870 ( 33 & 34 Vict. c. 75) imposed stricter standards on schools, and provided for
44-641: The Education Act 1902 , which replaced them with local education authorities , which were the councils of counties and county boroughs in 1902. The London School Board was replaced by the London County Council in 1904. This article relating to education in the UK is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to the history of the United Kingdom or its predecessor states
55-586: The School Standards and Framework Act 1998 . In 2008 approximately 61% of the state-funded primary and secondary schools in England were community schools. School board (England and Wales) School boards were ad hoc public bodies in England and Wales between 1870 and 1902, which established and administered elementary schools . The Elementary Education Act 1870 ( 33 & 34 Vict. c. 75) permitted
66-418: The board. The Education Act 1902 abolished school boards, transferring their functions to counties and boroughs acting as local education authorities. The board schools were thus renamed county schools . The act also introduced county secondary schools, which were greatly expanded during the early 20th century. Prior to the changes introduced in the Education Act 1944 the county secondary schools provided
77-592: The creation of school boards in areas where they were needed. The legislation followed campaigning by George Dixon , Joseph Chamberlain and the National Education League for elementary education free from Anglican doctrine. Education was still not free of fees. The first schedule of the 1870 act permitted school boards for: Around 2,500 school boards were created between 1870 and 1896. Each board could: Members were directly elected, not appointed by borough councils or parish vestries. Unusually for
88-485: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about schools, colleges, or other educational institutions which are associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Community_school&oldid=1060432874 " Category : Educational institution disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
99-452: The setting up of locally elected school boards in boroughs and parishes across England and Wales, empowered to set up elementary-level board schools where voluntary provision was insufficient to meet local education need. A number of voluntary schools, especially those of the BFSS, chose to become board schools. Parents were still required to pay fees, though the fees of the poorest were paid by
110-949: The state Community school (United States) , a type of publicly funded school that serves as both an educational institution and a center of community life Full-service community schools in the United States Individual schools [ edit ] Community Magnet Charter School , Los Angeles, California Community School (Sun Valley, Idaho) The Community School, Camden, Maine Community School (Teaneck, New Jersey) Community High School (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Community High School (Texas) Community High School (Teaneck, New Jersey) Community High School (West Chicago) The Community School (Decatur, Georgia) See also [ edit ] American Community School (disambiguation) Community High School (disambiguation) Community Christian School (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
121-791: The time, women were eligible to win election to school boards. When the first elections were held, in 1870, nine women were elected across the country: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Emily Davies in London, Anne Ashworth and Caroline Shum in Bath, Catherine Ricketts in Brighton, Lydia Becker in Manchester, Marian Huth in Huddersfield, Eleanor Smith in Oxford, and Jennetta Temple in Exeter. School boards were abolished by
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