I referred to a free school earlier in this thread. I was referring to Summerhill.

Long time since I was there, in fact the school is highly structured - but nothing is compulsory. There is a meeting three times each week. Classes are in fact fairly formal, they are just not compulsory.

The school has been inspected twice I think. The first time it was inspected as a normal "school", the second "on its own terms". The second time around it was inspected on its own terms and flew through. Bit of bad carpet here and there.

This is all available on the school's own website.

The majority of pupils are from abroad when I was there and I have to tell you it isn't cheap.