secondary modern school

British

noun

(formerly) a secondary school offering a more technical or practical and less academic education than a grammar school

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I pleaded and begged and got moved to a secondary modern school and it was the best thing that had happened to me.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2023

The boy who went to a secondary modern school in Southend was now the 98th Archbishop of York.

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2021

Back in the north-east, Scott went to a secondary modern school.

From The Guardian • May 7, 2017

Quaife met his fellow guitarists, Ray and Dave Davies, at William Grimshaw secondary modern school in Muswell Hill, north London, where his family had moved after he was born in Tavistock, Devon.

From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2010

His own artistry was expressed in the acrylic mural he painted at weekends for David and Mary Medd's pioneering secondary modern school, St Crispin's, at Wokingham, Berkshire.

From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2010

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