The phrase "accepting pupils" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where a school, tutor, or educational institution is indicating that they are open to enrolling new students.
Example: "The local art school is currently accepting pupils for its upcoming semester, so interested students should apply soon."
Alternatives: "enrolling students" or "taking in students".
That means the selective schools are accepting pupils they would previously have rejected.
However some grammar schools, including Rugby High School in Warwickshire, are going even further by reserving a fixed number of places for FSM-eligible children, so potentially accepting pupils with lower entrance exam scores than other applicants.
The ambition was to create a school of the quality of the ancient public schools at a more reasonable cost, whilst accepting pupils regardless of their faith.
So good that last year it was so oversubscribed that it accepted pupils from as far away as 26 metres, but not 27.
Where boundaries are accepted, pupils will have the opportunity to develop the self-control required to manage their behaviour and attitudes without authority figures.
Virtually all the boys here (there are now 146 and but that will rise to 183 next year as it expands to accept pupils from 11) study for BTec national diplomas in either agriculture or horticulture and around 50% study both.
Business as usual already includes selection at age 16 because academies can and do refuse to accept pupils who do not score high enough GCSE grades across a wide range of subjects.
But he accepted pupils faced "an element of luck", for example in terms of having an inspirational teacher.
Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Mr Hunt, said "primary schools is where it all starts and catching people young is incredibly important" but he accepted pupils faced "an element of luck", for example in terms of having an inspirational teacher.
At 13, already a talented draughtsman, Hooke went to London, initially as apprentice to the painter Sir Peter Lely, but soon as a pupil at Westminster school under Dr Busby, who accepted special pupils to train as virtuoso technical assistants.
He volunteered in the local township and sponsored a private school that accepted black pupils in defiance of the apartheid ban.
