Stonewall High (was RE: Question for British list members (school years))

[Carol]

Lee wrote:
> > If, at the age of 11, kids in the UK are going into the 6th grade,
how can Harry be going to Stonewall High?  Does High School start at
6th grade?
 
> Geoff:
> No. Pupils in the UK will reach 11 while they are in Year 6.
> 
> Harry is eleven on 31/07/91. Since his birthday is before the cutoff
date of 31/08/91, he is i the "11+" category by 01/09/91 so is
eligible to go into the First Year at both Stonewall and Hogwarts. In
modern terms, that is Year 7.
>
Carol responds:
Lee, as I understand it, Year 7 is the same as our sixth grade because
 the UK's Year 1 is the same as our kindergarten (only with a full day
rather than a half day of school).

So a UK high school would be like a combined middle school and high
school in the U.S.--their sixth through eleventh years, which equates
to our fifth through tenth grades. 

Geoff, please correct me if I'm wrong, but a high school (as opposed
to a "public" school like Eton) wouldn't have the last two years (the
upper and lower sixth form), which correspond to our eleventh and
twelfth grades (junior and senior years). Is that correct? I get the
idea that state schools provide free education but the students who
attend them are generally either working class students or those who
for some reasons did poorly on exams and don't plan to attend a
university.

I may have it all wrong still!

Carol, praying that her modem won't act up again and getting a new one
tomorrow