All-through school


An All-through school is a school which provides both primary and secondary education, namely from the 1st to 12th grade in the United States and from Year 1 to 13 in the United Kingdom. In the United Kingdom, they accept children at age 4, and school them right through to the age of 16.
In 2009, there were only 13 all-through state schools in England, but the Coalition Government's Free school programme has seen the number expand rapidly.
Examples of this type of school are Simon Balle School, a co-educational secondary school, sixth form, and most recently primary school with academy status located in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England; and Dartmouth Academy, a non-selective, co-educational school within the English Academy programme, in Dartmouth, Devon, in the south-west of England.

Definition

The term "all-through" can be legitimately applied to establishments in many different circumstances, but one commonly accepted definition is "schools which include at least two stages of a young person‟s education within the one establishment".