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secondary schools

secondary schools is the plural of secondary school.

Meaning of secondary school

Noun

secondary school (countable and uncountable, plural secondary schools)

  1. (Hong-Kong, Ireland, UK) A state school attended between the ages of 11 and 16 or 18 between primary school and university.
    • 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.2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival”, in Modern Railways, page 77
  2. (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. (Singapore) Middle school; junior high school; a school that one attends between the ages of 12-17 (equivalent of grades 7-10 in North America, and years 7-10 in Australia).

Questions about secondary schools

What is secondary schools the plural of?
Secondary schools is the plural of secondary school.

Words near secondary schools in the dictionary

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  3. secondary sanction
  4. secondary sanctions
  5. secondary school
  6. secondary schools
  7. secondary sector
  8. secondary sectors
  9. secondary sex characteristic
  10. secondary sex characteristics
  11. secondary smoking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: secondary schools (page history and authors); secondary school (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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