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A school is both the educational institution and building designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools that can be built and operated by both government and private organization. The names for these schools vary by country (discussed in the Regional terms section below) but generally include primary school for young children and secondary school for teenagers who have completed primary education. An institution where higher education is taught is commonly called a university college or university.

In addition to these core schools, students in a given country may also attend schools before and after primary (elementary in the U.S.) and secondary (middle school in the U.S.) education. Kindergarten or preschool provide some schooling to very young children (typically ages 3–5). University, vocational school, college or seminary may be available after secondary school. A school may be dedicated to one particular field, such as a school of economics or dance. Alternative schools may provide nontraditional curriculum and methods. (Full article...)

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Caulfield Grammar School is a private, co-educational, Anglican, International Baccalaureate, day and boarding school, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1881 as a boys' school, Caulfield Grammar began admitting girls exactly one hundred years later. The school amalgamated with Malvern Memorial Grammar School (MMGS) in 1961, with the MMGS campus becoming Malvern Campus.

Caulfield Grammar has three-day campuses in Victoria, Caulfield (Years 7–12), Wheelers Hill (Kindergarten–Year 12), and Malvern House (Kindergarten–Year 6). It has an outdoor education campus at Yarra Junction, and a student centre in Nanjing, China where the Year 9 internationalism programme is conducted. Caulfield Grammar is the only Melbourne-based APS school to provide boarding for both boys and girls, with 95 boarding students, and is the second largest school in Victoria, currently catering for 3,315 students. (Full article...)

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Father's Building (Languages) and the Mackenzie Building (Admissions) at Lawrenceville School

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The Lawrenceville School is a coeducational, independent preparatory boarding school for grades 9-12 located in the historic community of Lawrenceville, in Lawrence Township, New Jersey, U.S. As of June 30, 2006, its endowment was roughly $229 million, or nearly $290,000 per student. Its alumni range from Nobel laureate George Akerlof to former Disney CEO Michael Eisner.

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1999 – Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold embarks on a shooting rampage at Columbine High School, killing 12 students and a teacher, as well as wounding 23 others, before committing suicide. It is the fourth-deadliest school killing in United States history.

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1635 – Boston Latin School, the oldest public school in the United States, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts

2003 – Beijing closes all schools for two weeks because of the SARS virus.

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1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he reads a letter in which she expresses fears about nuclear war.

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...that the Annenschule (pictured) high school in Saint Petersburg, Russia was transformed into a Soviet work school after the Russian Revolution, but now houses a lyceum?

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... after being headmaster of St. Bees School, George Mallaby joined the army, rose to Colonel, became High Commissioner to New Zealand, and was knighted?

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Percy Henn in 1923

Reverend Canon Percy Umfreville Henn (21 January 1865 – 25 February 1955) was a clergyman and teacher in England and later Western Australia. He is best known for his time as Headmaster at Guildford Grammar School and later for the building of the Chapel of SS. Mary and George.

Henn gained his BA in 1887 and MA in 1890 from Worcester College at Oxford University. He taught at various schools until 1900, when he became a missionary in Western Australia in country towns. In Western Australia Henn married Jean Elliott and had four children. After further religious work in regional WA, he moved to Guildford, Western Australia and became a leading force behind Guildford Grammar School's Guildford Grammar School Chapel and preparatory school. He died in 1955 at age 90. (Full article...)

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... that Nancy Nash had to convince her parents to let her not attend the University of Texas to instead become an actress in 1926?
... that South Carolina's Buford High School was named in 1925 after Continental Army Colonel Abraham Buford, who fought at a nearby battlefield in 1780?
... that the FBS college football player Tre Harris set his school's single-game record for most receiving touchdowns in his debut?
... that the intricate seal of Columbia University was the first instance in which both Greek and Latin appeared on a college or university seal?
... that the No. 1–ranked 2023 Colorado Mines Orediggers, "college football's nerdiest contender", featured players with pigtails and a drawn-on blue mustache, a friar's haircut, and Harry Potter cosplay?
... that a company controlled by Lady Bird Johnson bought a Texas TV station from one of her college classmates?
... that some members of the formerly all-male University Club of New York voted to reject women from membership to protest a New York City law that would have required it?
... that Home Depot CEO Ted Decker ran his own landscaping business in high school?

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Image 1SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 2City College of New York (from College)
Image 3A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 4RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 5Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 6West Park Secondary School in Toronto is an example. It was built in 1968 for students with slow learning or special needs. (from Vocational school)
Image 7Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 8Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 9The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 10King's College London in 1831, as engraved by J. C. Carter. It is one of the founding institutions of University of London, established in 1836. (from History of education)
Image 11Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 12Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 13Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 14Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 15Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 16Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 17Loyola School, Chennai, India – run by the Catholic Diocese of Madras. Christian missionaries played a pivotal role in establishing modern schools in India. (from School)
Image 18Albert Bettannier's 1887 painting La Tache noire depicts a child being taught about the "lost" province of Alsace-Lorraine in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War – an example of how European schools were often used in order to inoculate Nationalism in their pupils. (from School)
Image 19A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 20Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 21Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 22A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 23St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 24The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 25The University of Cambridge (founded in 1209) and many other universities were founded during the Middle Ages. (from History of education)
Image 26Pomona College (from College)
Image 27Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 28Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 29The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 30Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 31Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 32Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 33The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 34Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 35One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 36Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 37Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 38Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 39Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatories (from Music school)
Image 40A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 41St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 42Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 43Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 44Scripps College (from College)
Image 45Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 46World map indicating Education Index (2007/2008 Human Development Report)
- 0.950 and over
- 0.900–0.949
- 0.850–0.899
- 0.800–0.849
- 0.750–0.799
- 0.700–0.749
- 0.650–0.699
- 0.600–0.649
- 0.550–0.599
- 0.500–0.549
- 0.450–0.499
- 0.400–0.449
- 0.350–0.399
- under 0.350
- not available
(from History of education)
Image 47Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 48Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 49Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 50A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 51A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 52King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 53Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 54First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 55György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 56To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 57Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)