What was paul McCartneys education?
Paul McCartney declined the opportunity to attend a teacher’s college, leaving school in July 1960 to travel to Hamburg, Germany, with the Beatles. In 1947, he first attended the Stockton Wood Road Primary School in Liverpool, England, before attending the Joseph Williams Junior School. At this point in time, McCartney passed the 11-plus exam with three others out of 90 examinees and thus gained admission to the Liverpool Institute, an all-boys grammar school in Liverpool with an excellent academic reputation. The Institute closed in 1985, but reopened again under McCartney’s sponsorship in 1996 as the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts. In 1957, McCartney sat for his Latin and Spanish O-levels, passing the latter. In 1958, he sat for O-levels in six additional subjects, attaining the five passes needed to enter the sixth form, which included French and German, whereupon he took three subjects to A-levels: art, English, and geography. He subsequently passed the A-level English
