secondary school

English

Noun

secondary school (plural secondary schools)

1. (education, British) In the UK, a state school attended between the ages of 11 and 16 or 18.
   • 2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival”, in Modern Railways, page 77:

     One of the key roles played by the Whitby line is the transport of children from rural spots along the branch to secondary school in the coastal town.

2. (education, Canada, US) The federally designated, graduation-separated classification of grades 9–12 (approximately ages 14–18), regardless of whether they are compiled together in one school or separate from the other grades.
3. (education, Hong Kong) School with education level between primary school and university.

Synonyms

• high school (equivalent in the US)

Coordinate terms

• primary school
• tertiary education, tertiary-level education

Related terms

• postsecondary school
• secondary modern

Translations

school

• Brunei Malay: skulah menengah
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中學／中学 (zh) (zhōngxué), 中学 (zh) (zhōngxué)

• Dutch: secundaire school f or m, school voor voortgezet onderwijs f or m, middelbare school (nl) f or m
• Esperanto: gimnazio
• Finnish: yläaste ja lukio
• French: école secondaire f, lycée (fr) m (equivalent in France), collège (fr) m (Switzerland)
• German: Mittelschule (de) f (the age of 10 to 16), Oberschule (de) f (various types of schools)
• Greek: λύκειο (el) n (lýkeio)
• Hungarian: középiskola (hu)
• Icelandic: framhaldsskóli (is) m, menntaskóli (is) m
• Ido: gimnazio (io)
• Indonesian: sekolah menengah (id), sekolah lanjutan (id)
• Irish: ardscoil f, meánscoil f
• Italian: liceo (it) m (lyceum), ginnasio (it) m (first 2 years of a "classical lyceum"), liceo classico m (classical lyceum), liceo scientifico m (scientific lyceum), liceo linguistico m (linguistic lyceum), liceo artistico m (art lyceum), scuola secondaria f (general sense), scuola superiore f (general sense)
• Japanese: 中学校 (ja) (ちゅうがっこう, chūgakkō) (the age of 13 to 15), 高校 (ja) (kōkō) (the age of 16 to 18)
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• Khmer: សាលាទុតិយៈ (sala tu teh yak), អនុវិទ្យាល័យ (ak nu vi tyea lay)
• Macedonian: средно училиште n (sredno učilište)
• Malay: sekolah menengah
• Persian: دبیرستان (fa) (dabirestân)
• Polish: szkoła średnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: ensino secundário m, ensino médio (pt) m
• Romanian: liceu (ro) n, școală secundară f, gimnaziu (ro) n
• Russian: сре́дняя шко́ла (ru) f (srédnjaja škóla)
• Scottish Gaelic: àrd-sgoil f
• Slovak: stredná škola
• Spanish: secundaria (es) f, escuela secundaria f
• Swahili: sekondari (sw)
• Vietnamese: trường trung học
• Welsh: ysgol uwchradd f
• Zhuang: cunghyoz

See also

• comprehensive
• grammar school
• junior school
• middle school