ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to describe the curriculum and organization of an existing boys' grammar school with an annual entry of about 100 boys. Such a school is usually described as a three-stream school, because the pupils, on entry, are divided into three more or less parallel forms. The school with which we are concerned is situated in a town which is surrounded by a large and thinly populated rural area. The school has a considerable reputation which is based upon an outstanding series of successes in University Scholarship examinations. At the end of each period, a mark must be provided for every boy in each subject. The games of the school are compulsory. Many head masters, in imitation of Public Schools, have divided their schools into houses. Two years in the sixth form make a tremendous difference to the average boy not only physically and scholastically, but happily in breadth of interests and willingness to co-operate.
