secondary school

noun

1. a high school or a school of corresponding grade, ranking between a primary school and a college or university.

secondary school

noun

1. a school for young people, usually between the ages of 11 and 18

Other Word Forms

• secondary-school adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of secondary school¹

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

Campaigners asked for another option, which included splitting the school campus up and building a secondary school in a new location while keeping a primary school in Tobermory.

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Artist Shelagh Swanson was commissioned to work with the relatives of donors, along with young people at more than a dozen secondary schools, to create the ripple-effect art.

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Separately, £2m is being put towards a scheme to teach secondary school pupils in England about the Holocaust - the genocide of Jews during World War Two.

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He lets secondary school pupils use the gym for free, he says.

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The Estyn report found that secondary school pupils were using AI for tasks such as summarising revision notes and creating quiz questions tailored to exam content.

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Related Words

• high school 
• junior high school 
• middle school 
• prep school 
• preparatory school 
• senior high school