While gymnasia and Realschulen often handpick their students, comprehensives are open to all. Labour pressed local authorities to convert grammar schools into comprehensives. There are eighteen secondary schools in the Sunderland area, predominantly comprehensives. Sale has one grammar school, two comprehensives and nineteen primary schools. No comprehensives in Leicestershire LEA were rated as poor performers, unlike in some neighbouring counties. All of the town's grammar schools were changed to comprehensives in 1975. Once Smedley left in 1972, the bilateral schools later became comprehensives. The College predominantly recruited from two local comprehensives&colon; Pontarddulais and Penyrheol. Pupils from Oakdale and Pontllanfraith Comprehensives transferred into Islwyn High School. She has also taught in two comprehensives located in London. These scores are in the top 2% for all UK comprehensives. The first comprehensives were set up after the Second World War. She was very intelligent and a good student, passing her comprehensives without difficulty.