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"School type" is used to denote the variety or class an educational instution belongs to, such as "grammar school" or "parochial school". Institutions may be of more than one type -- a private school may also be a Catholic school, for example.
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| Grammar school |
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A grammar school is a school that may, depending on regional usage as exemplified below, provide either secondary education or, a much less common usage, primary education (also known as "elementary"). Grammar schools trace their origins back to...
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| Private school | School |
Private schools, or independent school, are schools not administered by local, state, or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with...
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| Catholic school |
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Catholic schools are education ministries of the Roman Catholic Church. These schools aim to develop their students through participation in the sacrament life of the Church, study of religion and theology, a full curriculum in secular subjects, and...
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| Voluntary aided school |
A voluntary aided school is a school in England where the governing body, as opposed to the Local Education Authority, employs the staff, and decides the admission arrangements, but the school is funded by the state and cannot charge fees. The...
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| International school |
An International school is loosely defined as a school that does not require their students to learn the national or local language of the country the school is located in. These school cater mainly to students who are not nationals of the host...
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| Upper school |
Upper Schools tend to be schools within secondary education. Outside England, the term normally refers to a section of a larger school. There is some variation in the use of the term in England.
Upper Schools are a type of secondary school found in...
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| Specialist school |
The specialist schools programme is a UK government initiative which encourages secondary school in England to specialise in certain areas of the curriculum to boost achievement. The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust is responsible for the...
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| Boarding school |
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A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils not only study, but also live during term time, with their fellow students and possibly teachers. The word 'boarding' in this sense means to provide food and lodging.
Many public schools in the...
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| Charter school |
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Charter schools are elementary or secondary schools in the United States that receive public money but have been freed from some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public schools in exchange for some type of accountability...
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| Grant-maintained school |
Grant-maintained schools were state school in England and Wales in the United Kingdom that, under provision of the Education Reform Act 1988, were funded directly by central government in the form of a grant.
GM schools opted out of local...
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The Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS) is instituted by the Hong Kong Education Bureau as a means to enhance the quality of private school in Hong Kong at the kindergarten, primary, and secondary levels.
An existing DSS school is granted a subsidy based...
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| Public high school |
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A public high school is a secondary school that is financed by tax revenues and other government-collected revenues, and administered exclusively by, and at the discretion of, state and local officials. The modifier "high", as applied to the noun ...
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| Day school |
A day school is - as opposed to a boarding school - an institution where child are given educational instruction during the day and after which children return to their home. The term can also be used to emphasize the length of full-day programs as...
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| Single-sex school |
A single-sex school is a school that accepts boy or girl exclusively. This has been the traditional situation for independent school, especially public school and grammar school in the United Kingdom, but many of these have now become coeducational....
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| Alternative school |
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An alternative school (sometimes called a minischool), is an educational establishment with a curriculum and methods that are nontraditional, or sometimes ultratraditional. These schools have a special curriculum offering a more flexible program of...
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| Independent school |
An independent school in the United Kingdom is a school relying upon private sources for all of its funding, predominantly in the form of school fees. In England and Wales the term public school is often used to refer to what is normally called in...
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| Special school |
A special school is a school catering to students who have special education needs, e.g. because of learning difficulties or physical disabilities. Special schools may be specifically designed, staffed and resourced to provide the appropriate...
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A sixth form college is an educational institution in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Hong Kong or Malta where students aged 16 to 19 typically study for advanced school-level qualifications, such as A-levels.
In England and Wales, education is...
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| Foundation school |
In England and Wales, a foundation school is a type of school which has a degree of independence from the local education authority. Foundation schools were set up under the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 to replace grant-maintained school....
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| Parochial school |
Parochial school is one term used (particularly in the United States) to describe a school that engages in religious education in addition to conventional education. In another, more narrow sense, parochial schools are Christian grammar school or...
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| State school |
State school is an expression used in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom to distinguish schools provided by the government from privately run schools.
In the United Kingdom, the term, state school, refers to government-funded schools...
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| Selective school |
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Selective schools in New South Wales, Australia are most commonly government high schools operated by the New South Wales Department of Education and Training, that have accepted their students based upon their academic merit. Each year,...
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| Alternative high school |
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In education, the phrase alternative high school, sometimes referred to as a minischool, is "any junior high school, high school, senior high school, or secondary school having a special curriculum offering a more flexible program of study than a...
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| Voluntary controlled school |
In a voluntary controlled school in England (almost always church school), the land and buildings are often owned by a charitable foundation. However, the Local Education Authority employ the school's staff and has primary responsibility for...
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A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities. A national university may or may not be considered a public university, depending on...
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A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degree in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education. The word university is derived from the Latin...
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A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration. It teaches topics such as accounting, finance, information systems, marketing, organizational behavior, strategy, human resource management, and...
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Mixed-sex education, (or just Mixed education), also known as Coeducation, is the integrated education to males and females at the same school facilities. The opposite situation is described as single-sex education. Most older institutions of higher...
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