Word.ws English Dictionary

microschool

microschool noun: a school having an unusually small class size.

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
    • Though not all of the families that have been forced to embrace “pandemic pods” to educate their children are thrilled about it, at least some of them will decide that micro-schools are a better option than traditional district schools after the pandemic subsides.2021 February 8, Reihan Salam, “Is America’s Educational System Becoming More Pluralistic?”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2021

Forms of microschool

pluralmicroschools
alternative formmicro-school

Origin of microschool

From micro- + school.

Questions about microschool

What does microschool mean?
Microschool means a school having an unusually small class size.
What part of speech is microschool?
Microschool is a noun.
What is the plural of microschool?
The plural of microschool is microschools.

Words near microschool in the dictionary

  1. microscans
  2. microschema
  3. microschemas
  4. microschizont
  5. microschizonts
  6. microschool
  7. microschools
  8. microscintillant
  9. microscintillants
  10. microscintillation
  11. microscissors

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “microschool.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/microschool. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.