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comprehensive school

comprehensive school

noun

  1. a secondary school for children of all abilities from the same district
  2. another name for composite school
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of comprehensive school1

First recorded in 1945–50
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She said it would take Owen two hours to walk from their home to Mountain Ash comprehensive school.

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"In September he would have been starting comprehensive school. '’ve got five kids, but I've got four that are living and it's just not right."

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The adolescents were investigated from the end of comprehensive school until they received their first mental disorder diagnosis, relocated from the country or died.

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One school was a mixed grammar school in a predominantly white, middle-class rural area and another was a mixed comprehensive school in a predominantly white, working-class urban area.

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In recent months, Democrats have also considered expanding the state’s hate crime law and enacting a comprehensive school safety package spurred by the 2021 mass shooting at Oxford High School.

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