 The Compulsory stages of education are broken into a Foundation Stage (actually covering the last part of optional and first part of compulsory education), 4 Key Stages, and post-16 education (sometimes unofficially termed Key Stage Five, which takes a variety of forms including 6th Form (covering the last 2 years of Secondary Education in schools).Below is a table summarising the most common names of the various schools and stages.Grammar schools are normally state-funded but selective schools, admitting children from 11 years old onward, but there are exceptions.