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district high school

British  

noun

  1. a school in a rural area that includes primary and post-primary classes

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Deborah Hunter-Harvill, a board member who graduated from a district high school in 1973, recalled being a student when “the infrastructure was not crumbling, and everything was clean.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 26, 2021

It’s also worth noting that in St. Johns County, Florida’s No. 1 school district, high school starts at 9:15 a.m.

From Washington Times • Aug. 28, 2019

John Cook: I was at Forest Lake Golf Course watching my son play the district high school golf championship.

From Golf Digest • Oct. 25, 2018

In August, a federal judge ruled that the Lancaster school district, which was funneling some newly arrived refugees to Phoenix, had to allow them to attend the main district high school.

From Slate • Mar. 8, 2017

In the fall of 1957, after nine years of classes in the Coalwood School, I went across the mountains to Big Creek, the district high school, for the tenth through the twelfth grade.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

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