secondary school
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Origin of secondary school
First recorded in 1825–35
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When Kelsey first arrived at secondary school, she said she wanted to be almost anywhere else but there.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
The intervention raised math achievement by 0.184 standard deviation a year in elementary school and 0.146 in secondary school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The more grown-up look comes as George, now a teenager, gets ready to start secondary school in September.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
The government had previously set itself a target to halve the disadvantage gap by the time the current generation of children finish secondary school.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Neither my mother nor my father had finished secondary school, so university seemed out of the question.
From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda
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