direct-grant school

noun

1. (in Britain, formerly) a school financed by endowment, fees, and a state grant conditional upon admittance of a percentage of nonpaying pupils nominated by the local education authority

Example Sentences

He attended Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School in Elstree – “I thought it was going to be like Tom Brown’s School Days, but it was a direct-grant school then, and still very mixed” – after which he went to Bristol University.

From The Guardian