secondary education
Post-elementary formal learning
Secondary education is schooling between elementary school and college, typically covering ages 11–18.
In the United States, this means middle school and high school; in Britain, it corresponds to secondary school.
The term appears most often in policy discussions and formal contexts: She completed her secondary education in rural Texas.
- middle schoolGrades 6-8 institution
- high schoolUpper secondary institution
- senior yearLast year before graduation
- gymnasiumIndoor athletic facility
- GCSEUK secondary qualification
curriculum · study hall · college · senior · letter jacket · sophomore · baccalaureate · students · student council · adolescence · university · boarding schools · school bus · yearbook · sixth form · academic achievement · honor roll · report card
- British educationgrammar schools, comprehensive schools, state schools, private schools, boarding schools
- Indian EducationNIT, UGC, primary schools, medical colleges, polytechnics
- Arab educationprivate schools, government schools, religious schools, primary schooling, curriculum reform
- Education Policycurriculum reform, K-12, school reform, curriculum standards, school funding
- education rightsequal access, student rights, appeal rights, nondiscrimination, anti-discrimination
- Andalusian Education
secondary educationprimary education
Initial years of schooling
elementary education · higher education · tertiary education · university education · college education
secondary educationhomeschooling
Family-directed academic instruction
self-education · unschooling · autodidacticism · apprenticeship · on-the-job training
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