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micro-school

micro-school is the alternative spelling of microschool.

Meaning of microschool

Noun

microschool (plural microschools)

  1. A school having an unusually small class size.
    • Pod has become a magic word, even though its meaning is not always clear. Some public schools are “podding” their students into smaller groups. Private companies are popping up with “microschools.”2020 August 12, Brian Platzer, “I Run a Tutoring Company. I Get Dozens of Calls a Day About Learning Pods.”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2020

Forms of micro-school

pluralmicro-schools

Questions about micro-school

What is micro-school the alternative spelling of?
Micro-school is the alternative spelling of microschool.

Words near micro-school in the dictionary

  1. micro-retirees
  2. micro-retirement
  3. micro-retirements
  4. micro-scale
  5. micro-scales
  6. micro-school
  7. micro-schools
  8. micro-sized
  9. micro-targeting
  10. micro-vacation
  11. micro-vacations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: micro-school (page history and authors); microschool (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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