What school did Ringo Starr graduate from?

Answer 1

No- in the British Isles, we don't have a system of 'graduation' from High Schools, which in the UK are called Comprehensive Schools. Students stay in them until they are 16, when they take exams which are now known as GCSE's (General Certificate of Secondary Education) but which prior to 1987 were divided into 'O'-Levels (Ordinary Level) and CSE's (Certificate of Secondary Education). They don't HAVE to sit the exams, but it is very disadvantageous to leave school without any exam grades as it reduces your chances of getting a job. After this, they have the option of staying on in school for another 2 years to do 'A'-Level (Advanced Level) exams, or they can do these in separate colleges, or just leave school- but there isn't the American tradition of 'graduation' from High School. In Ringo's school days, secondary level education was divided into two tiers, and which level you went into was determined by whether you passed an exam called the '11 Plus' which was taken at age 11. If you passed, you went to what was known as a grammar school, which offered a higher standard of education and had a more intelligent and dedicated staff- if you didn't, you went to an ordinary secondary school, where educational standards were generally poorer, the staff less dedicated, and where there was likely to be more bullying and less discipline. Ringo did not attain the necessary junior school standards needed to take the 11-Plus exam, but soon afterwards he suffered a number of illnesses in his early teens which kept him out of mainstream education for a lot of the time. He left the school system at the age of about 15 with no qualifications at all.

The grammar school system was abolished under the Government of Harold Wilson in the mid-'60s and replaced by a system called Secondary Modern, or Comprehensive, schools, which was supposed to end the stigma of Secondary School pupils being looked down upon in society and being discriminated against in the workplace. However, it proved to be a disaster for the more able students, who found themselves in with a lot of rough bullies and having to cope with disinterested and often cruel teachers. Those grammar schools that had already been in existence BEFORE the law changed have been allowed to remain, but it is now the schools themselves that offer the 11-Plus exam and not the State- nowadays, there are few grammar schools left. After sinking to appalling depths of academic failure, institutionalised bullying and very low standards in the 1980s and '90s, an overhaul of the Comprehensive system was undertaken and standards raised to a much higher level, with efforts made to recruit better, more humane teachers, to stamp out bullying, and to give students a much higher standard of education.

Answer 2

He didn't. He missed three years' schooling because of illness, and never made them up. Paul McCartney was the only Beatle to graduate from high school; he majored in Art.

Answer 3

No, Ringo was very sick as a child and barely went to grammer school. He didn't go to school at all after the age of fifteen.

Answer 4

He didn't go to college and when he was a kid he couldn't even go to school because he was sickly.

Answer 5

No he was very sickly and hardly went to school. He dropped out of school when he was a teenager.