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Sunday school

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Definition of Sunday school

as in charter school

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The accountant and former Collier County School Board member founded a charter school management company that started six classical education charter schools in Florida.

— Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2026
Phothisarath was struck on the tracks outside of Trinity Basin School, a charter school.

— Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of charter school

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The killing took place last October at the secondary school in Selangor, near Kuala Lumpur, defense attorney Kitson Foong said, per the Independent.

— Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026
Murphy noted that George, however, is the first future monarch to attend a secondary school like Eton in the age of smartphones and social media, requiring even more privacy precautions than in the past.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of secondary school

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The museum tends to attract a broad swath of ages, from middle school on up to senior citizens—though school vacation periods do bring in a younger, elementary school–aged crowd, too.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2026
Three children and a woman were taken to the hospital Thursday morning after being hit by a vehicle near a Modesto elementary school.

— Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of elementary school

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The magnet school was among the district's strategies to attract students from across the city.

— Kayla Huynh, jsonline.com, 9 Sep. 2026
Then, in 2009, the school district opened Terra, another entirely magnet school that sits on the northern edge of Killian’s attendance boundary.

— Austin Horn August 29, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of magnet school

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This week, as Spanish children across the country started their school year, the Reina Sofia primary school in Ceuta did its best to prepare for a normal first week, too – getting the front entrance clean and putting photos of teachers on the wall.

— Colette Davidson, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2026
In each session, tutors also assist students with their homework assigned by their primary school.

— Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of primary school

Noun

In academic performance, boys lag well behind girls in elementary school, high school, and college, where female undergraduates now outnumber their male peers roughly 2 to 1.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 21 Sep. 2026
Recommendations From the Star-Telegram, a story on a top high school baseball pitcher being ruled ineligible in Texas for transferring for athletic reasons.

— Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of high school

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Roughly 12 hours after Georgia Tech announced one of its students was missing, the Midtown Atlanta public school said he’s been found.

— Jason Armesto, AJC.com, 17 Sep. 2026
End-of-year ATLAS results for Arkansas public school students showed a rise in student proficiency in math and English across grade levels from spring 2025 to spring 2026, according to the Education Department.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of public school

Noun

Hand in hand with that was the rise of literacy and the universal common school movement.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
Being outside of the scope of the requirement of the statutory definition of the common school system, charter schools fail to meet the definition required of a common school.

— Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 20 Feb. 2026

Definition of common school

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