Retain existing grammar schools but keep the ban on new selective schools

Allow existing grammar schools to retain selection while continuing the statutory prohibition on new grammar schools.

Reconstruction: existing designated grammar schools may continue selective admissions and lawful expansion, but no new state-funded selective schools may open and non-selective schools may not convert to full academic selection.

Qualification: this is the current legal and inherited baseline. The latest explicit DfE position located predates the July 2026 government; it is not a newly confirmed Burnham-government decision.

Source: DfE position reproduced by Comprehensive Future · Open reference