Selective school
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A selective school is a school which admits students on the basis of some sort of selection criteria, usually academic. The term may have different connotations in different systems.
In New South Wales, Australia, "selective high schools" is the name given to the government schools which select their students on the basis of their academic ability. Most students enter a selective high school in Year 7, after sitting the Selective High Schools Test in the previous year.
A similar system is in the process of being dismantled in Northern Ireland, where the schools are referred to as grammar schools, by the Northern Ireland Education Order which is going through Westminster.
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