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{{Short description|Type of school in the United Kingdom and some other countries}}
{{About|a type of school in the United Kingdom and in former British territories|the first stage of schooling in the United States|Elementary school (United States)}}
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[[File:Henrietta Barnett School, London NW11.jpg|thumb|[[Henrietta Barnett School]] is a grammar school for girls with [[Academy (English school)|academy status]].]] 
A '''grammar school''' is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the [[United Kingdom]] and other English-speaking countries, originally a [[Latin school|school teaching Latin]], but more recently an academically oriented [[Selective school|selective secondary school]].

The original purpose of [[medieval]] grammar schools was the teaching of [[Latin]]. Over time the [[curriculum]] was broadened, first to include [[Ancient Greek]], and later English and other [[languages of Europe|European languages]], [[natural sciences]], [[mathematics]], [[history]], [[geography]], [[art]] and other subjects. In the late [[Victorian era]] grammar schools were reorganised to provide secondary education throughout [[England]] and [[Wales]]; Scotland had developed a different system. Grammar schools of these types were also established in British territories overseas, where they have evolved in different ways.

Grammar schools became one of the three tiers of the [[Tripartite System]] of state-funded secondary education operating in England and Wales from the mid-1940s to the late 1960s, and continue as such in Northern Ireland. After most [[Local education authorities in England and Wales|local education authorities]] moved to non-selective [[Comprehensive school (England and Wales)|comprehensive schools]] in the 1960s and 1970s, some grammar schools became fully [[Private schools in the United Kingdom|independent school]]s and charged fees, while most others were abolished or became comprehensive (or sometimes merged with a [[secondary modern]] to form a new comprehensive school). In both cases, some of these schools kept "grammar school" in their names. More recently, a number of state grammar schools, still retaining their selective intake, gained [[Academy (English school)|academy]] status are thus independent of the local education authority (LEA). Some LEAs retain forms of the Tripartite System and a few grammar schools survive in otherwise comprehensive areas. Some of the remaining grammar schools can trace their [[List of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom|histories to before the 15th century]].