Manchester Grammar School

The Manchester Grammar School (MGS) is the largest independent day school for boys in the UK (ages 7–18). It is based in Manchester, England. Founded in the 16th century as a free grammar school, it was housed on a site adjacent to Manchester parish church (later the cathedral) until 1930, when it moved to the present site in Fallowfield. In the post-war period, it was a direct-grant grammar school (by which one quarter of the places were directly funded by central government with the rest attracting fees, some paid by the Local Education Authority, some by private pupils, and a few funded by so-called Foundation Scholarships awarded on the basis of performance in the school entrance examinations). It chose to become an independent...