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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

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Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms

  • secondary-school adjective
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of secondary school1

First recorded in 1825–35
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Ten people were killed in the attack at the secondary school on Tuesday - the deadliest in the country's recent history.

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Students were sitting in their classrooms at a secondary school in Graz when a 21-year-old Austrian man shot dead nine people, before killing himself.

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But that all changed at about 10:00 on Tuesday when a former student ran amok at a secondary school in the Dreierschützengasse, close to the main station in Austria's second largest city.

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The incident took place at Dreierschützengasse secondary school in the north-west of the city.

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Primary pupil numbers are decreasing, though, as birth rates fall, and staffing issues have been felt most acutely in secondary schools - particularly in specialist subjects like maths, science and languages.

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