Stamford
The situation in Stamford is anomalous.
Stamford is remotely placed within Lincolnshire, with villages in Rutland, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire within its catchment.
The county council maintain five junior schools, but only one non-selective secondary school - the Queen Eleanor Technology College. The place of grammar schools has long been served by 'the assisted places scheme' that provides state funding to send children to one of the two independent schools in the town. This was politically contentious and the national scheme was formally abolished by the 1997 Labour government. Since the building of new grammar schools is illegal, the Stamford arrangements remained in place as an increasingly protracted transitional arrangement. Finally, in 2008, the council decided no new places could be funded, but no alternative has yet been decided. The arrangement will finally end in 2012. The rest of South Kesteven, apart from Market Deeping, has the selective system.
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