secondary school
15
2.0
- noun
- /ˈsɛkəndˌɛri skuːl/
- US
:
escuela secundaria
- Students typically attend secondary school from ages 11 to 18, preparing for college and future careers.
- secondary school students
- secondary school teachers
- public secondary school
First year of secondary school, we all met up to go Carnival.
- First year of secondary school, we all met up to go Carnival.
- Sarah has had the best friend, Rebecca since secondary school.
- Nursery, primary school, secondary school and college.
- So Julio is a technology teacher and the headmaster of upper secondary school.
- And now they've got to actually have a variant of that that's that's going to to secondary schools around the world.
- The line wasn't until I got to secondary school that things started to take a little bit of a dip for me.
- And in order to do that, we have to overcome the problem of the teachers unions at the elementary and secondary school levels.
- Yeah, crap secondary school where all of us were expected.
- If you have kids in school age in secondary school, I highly recommend it.
- So I was in school in both my primary school, my secondary school, the only mixed race person.
- Yes, I would be in my not in secondary school.
- I spent a lot of time in the stables and then secondary school.
- I've gone to another secondary school and basically I met some kid.
Examples
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Did you know we went to secondary school together?
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Most pupils attend eight years of elementary school, four years of secondary school, plus one year of kindergarten.
Academic text (1999) -
And then I thought after I leave secondary school, I'll never see them again.
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If you have kids in school age in secondary school, I highly recommend it.
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At secondary school, we were given the facts.
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Her education had gone no further than her secondary school leaving certificate.
Fiction book (1999) -
Taught geography to secondary school kids.
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What percentage of those students who successfully complete secondary school does society hope to educate further?
Academic text (1999) -
Students came from four public secondary schools located in Connecticut, South Dakota, and Arizona.
Academic text (2011) -
I also played Rum Tum Tugger in my secondary school's production of Cats.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A school for teenagers about 14 to 18 years old before college
2
2.1
A school for older teens, usually in grades 9 to 12
2
1.8
A school for teenagers who study grades nine to twelve after middle school
How Advanced
∞
1.0
- US
∞
1.0
- US
15
2.0
- US
103
1.4
15
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a school for students after primary/elementary education' is directly compositional from 'secondary' (not primary; second-level) + 'school' (education institution). This adjective+noun pattern maps straightforwardly onto the idea of the next stage of schooling and has clear parallels in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Secondary school comes from the idea that secondary means 'second' and school is a place to learn, so it comes after 'primary school'. That's why secondary school means the next stage of schooling for older children and teenagers before 'college'.