Editing Grammar school (section)

===Australia===
[[File:Sydney Grammar School-Front view.jpg|right|thumb|[[Sydney Grammar School]] (1857)]]
In the mid-19th century, independent schools were established in the Australian colonies to spare the wealthy classes from sending their sons to schools in Britain.
These schools took their inspiration from English [[Public school (UK)|public schools]], and often called themselves "grammar schools".<ref>{{cite book
| title     = The Social Production of Merit: Education, Psychology, and Politics in Australia, 1900–1950
| author    = David McCallum
| publisher = Routledge | year = 1990
| isbn      = 978-1-85000-859-0
| pages     = 41–42, 46
}}</ref>
Early examples include [[Launceston Grammar School]] (1846), [[Pulteney Grammar School]] (1847), [[Geelong Grammar School]] (1855), [[Melbourne Grammar School]] (1858) and [[Hale School]] (1858).

With the exception of the non-denominational [[Sydney Grammar School]] (1857) and [[Queensland]] grammar schools, all the grammar schools established in the 19th century were attached to the [[Church of England]] (now the [[Anglican Church of Australia]]).
In Queensland, the [[Grammar Schools Act (Qld) 1860|Grammar Schools Act 1860]] provided for the state-assisted foundation of non-denominational grammar schools.
Beginning with [[Ipswich Grammar School]] (1863), ten schools were founded, of which the following eight still exist:<ref name="Grammar Schools Act 2016">[https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/html/asmade/act-2016-052 Grammar Schools Act 2016], Queensland Government.</ref>

[[File:StateLibQld 2 237150 Rockhampton Girls' Grammar School.jpg|thumb|right|[[Rockhampton Girls Grammar School|Rockhampton Girls' Grammar School]] (c. 1895)]]
* [[Brisbane Grammar School]]
* [[Brisbane Girls Grammar School|Brisbane Girls' Grammar School]] (1875), the first of several grammar schools for girls in Australia<ref>{{cite book
| title     = Knowing Women: Origins of Women's Education in Nineteenth-century Australia
| author    = Marjorie R. Theobald
| publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 1996
| isbn      = 978-0-521-42004-4
| pages     = 95–97
}}</ref> 
* [[Ipswich Girls' Grammar School]]
* [[Ipswich Grammar School]]
* [[Rockhampton Girls Grammar School|Rockhampton Girls' Grammar School]] (1892)
* [[Rockhampton Grammar School]]
* [[Toowoomba Grammar School]]
* [[Townsville Grammar School]]

In the 1920s grammar schools of other denominations were established, including members of the [[Associated Grammar Schools of Victoria]],<ref>McCallum (1990), p. 45.</ref> and the trend has continued to the present day.
Today, the term is defined only in Queensland legislation.<ref name="Grammar Schools Act 2016" />
Throughout the country, "grammar schools" are generally high-cost private schools.

The nearest equivalents of contemporary English grammar schools are [[selective school]]s.
The New South Wales public education system operates 19 selective public schools which resemble the English grammar-school system insofar as they engage in academic selection by way of centralised examination, they do not charge tuition fees and they are recipients of a greater degree of public funding per pupil than is afforded to non-selective government schools.