St Joseph's is a selective school, but entrance is not based on a straightforward 11-plus system.
Mr Evans was keen to emphasise that Colyton, whilst being a selective school, does not have the most challenging entrance exam.
Parent Nicky Arresti has three children who attended The Latymer School in north London, a selective school, which topped the league tables for the new value-added measures.
Therefore, there should be no problem in judging the effectiveness of those teachers in an inner-city school such as Hurlingham and Chelsea, or a suburban school, or indeed a selective school.
Harriet Harman, who was Mr Blair's first social-security secretary, outraged her colleagues by sending her son to a selective grammar school.
Clair, now a sophomore at Bard, another selective high school.
Matters are complicated by a second group of parents, which plans to bid for a non-selective free school to be established on the same site as the proposed new grammar.
The comparison doesn't sit well with the British student, who's currently in Year 8 at Colchester County high school, a selective girl's grammar school in Essex, England.
Is it worth paying more than for a less selective but more affordable school?
Wattendorf, a senior at Northern Virginia's super-selective Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, stood before prospective members of its Black Student Union in the fall and introduced himself as the club's president.
In addition, even those earning too much to demonstrate need under aid formulas "expect to see some sort of merit aid, " unless the school is highly selective, said Trey Chappell, a college adviser in Scottsdale, Ariz.
In reality, parents are allowed to express a preference for a school but children within the catchment area are usually given priority in the allocation of places, assuming the school is non-selective.
To Roger Hull, Union's president at the time, joining the ECAC and building a great hockey team would raise the profile of a college then known as something of a safety school for the most selective northeastern institutions.
After promotion to lead the whole education portfolio he went on to attack Labour's grammar school policy, calling the selective system "as divisive as it is archaic" and telling MPs how 11-plus exam failures - including his brother - suffered for life.
Saxony kept the selective element, but sent pupils to secondary school at 13 rather than 11.
He also wants the most selective of universities to sponsor a city academy school.
Grammar school heads said their schools were less socially selective than leading comprehensives.
The school prides itself on being very open and not at all selective.
The new school, for pupils aged 11 to 19, will be non-selective and will open in September 2014.
These include such things as the practice in some non-selective schools of not considering an application if the parents had also put a grammar school as one of their choices.
BBC: Getting a school place is a fraught issue for many families
With Sallie Mae cutting back and being more selective on student loans, parents' ability to pay for their kids to go to school is a huge issue.
The report, The Barriers to Choice in Public Services, looked at "whether inward-looking admissions criteria, for example by faith and super-selective schools, ought to be balanced by a broad duty to promote a social balance inside the school".
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