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Comprehensive school - 3 dictionary results

comprehensive school


Origin:
1945–50

composite school

–noun
(in Canada) a secondary school offering academic, commercial, and industrial subjects.


Origin:
1940–45

comprehensive school

in England, secondary school offering the curricula of a grammar school, a technical school, and a secondary modern school, with no division into separate compartments. Pupils are placed in A, B, or C "streams" according to their aptitudes and abilities. Comprehensives are similar to the large, multipurpose American high school, in which the ability grouping system is known as "tracking."

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