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Independent schools are fee-charging schools. They are known as private schools and sometimes as “public schools”, even though they do not exist within the state sector. They don’t receive any public funds and are governed and managed by special trusts. They are not obliged to teach the national curriculum but most of them do enter the same public examinations.
Independent primary schools fall into two main categories: pre-prepatory, for ages two to seven and junior or preparatory schools for ages seven to 11 or 13. The ‘prep’ school is devoted to preparation for the Common Entrance examination, which is required for many independent secondary schools.
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