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Origin of comprehensive school

First recorded in 1945–50
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How to use comprehensive school in a sentence

  • She will persevere in this course till it secures her a comprehensive school system and an admirable university.

    A short history of Rhode Island|George Washington Greene

British Dictionary definitions for comprehensive school

comprehensive school

noun
mainly British a secondary school for children of all abilities from the same district
Eastern Canadian another name for composite school
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