upper school


noun
  1. a scholastic division, especially in a private school, including the terminal secondary grades.

Origin of upper school

1
First recorded in 1620–30

Words Nearby upper school

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How to use upper school in a sentence

  • When I was at the College school, Gloucester, in 1794, there was a considerable library in a room adjoining the upper school.

  • They were forming a special plan for strengthening what they called the bond of union in the upper school.

    Betty Vivian | L. T. Meade
  • Olive Repton, the pet and darling of nearly the whole of the upper school, was making the others scream with laughter.

    Betty Vivian | L. T. Meade
  • The younger Vivians were allowed to remain in the upper school, but were in much lower forms.

    Betty Vivian | L. T. Meade
  • At half-past six on the following day the great gong sounded through the entire upper school.

    Betty Vivian | L. T. Meade

British Dictionary definitions for upper school

upper school

noun
  1. the senior pupils in a secondary school, usually those in the fourth and fifth years and above

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