high schools

Secondary education buildings

High schools are secondary educational institutions typically covering grades 9 through 12, serving students roughly 14 to 18 years old.

In the American system, high school follows middle school and precedes college.

The term extends to the building itself and the social experience: We met in high school, the high school football team.

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high schoolselementary schools

Institutions for young learners

primary schools · grade schools · kindergartens · preschools · nursery schools

institutional formality

high schoolshomeschooling

Family-directed academic instruction

unschooling · self-education · autodidacticism · apprenticeships · life experience

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