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Comprehensive Schools

Volume 524: debated on Thursday 4 March 1954

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asked the Minister of Education if she will give a list of existing comprehensive schools in England and Wales.

The term "comprehensive school" is used in a number of different senses. For the purposes of the Ministry's statistical returns, secondary schools are classified as comprehensive where they are intended to provide all the secondary education facilities needed by the children of a given area, but without being organised in clearly defined sides. Following are the schools so classified at the end of 1953:

Local Education Authority and Name of School