ABSTRACT
This outline description of the present-day structure of the school and its recent social history is made to provide a general setting for the more specialized study of the values and involvement of its pupils. More detailed descriptions of some aspects of its organization follow in later chapters, but it will be shown that, quite fortuitously, this case-study school is reasonably typical of maintained grammar schools for boys. The recent social history of the school is also seen to be fairly typical of such schools when compared with those of other London grammar schools described by Flann Campbell (1956), those of grammar schools in Watford and Middlesbrough described by Jean Floud and her associates (1956), and the more general social history of grammar schools by Olive Banks (1955). However, both the description of its structure and its history indicate that, like every school, this one has its undeniably unique features too.
