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A school is an educational institution 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. 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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Benjamin Franklin High School is a charter high school and a magnet high school in New Orleans, Louisiana. Commonly nicknamed "Franklin" or "Ben Franklin", the school was founded in 1957 as a school for gifted children. Ben Franklin is consistently named the No.1 school in the state of Louisiana and has been ranked by U.S. News & World Report as No. 15 charter school in the nation. In 1990, it moved to its current location on the campus of the University of New Orleans (UNO) in the Lake Terrace/Lake Oaks neighborhood of Orleans Parish, near Lake Pontchartrain. The school was damaged by several feet of flood water due to Hurricane Katrina in the fall of 2005, and efforts to reopen the school were covered by nationwide news agencies. The school is part of the Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB), yet it operates as a charter school and is not administered directly by the agency.

Ben Franklin has a selective admissions process, and according to CBS News is a "magnet for the city's smart and motivated students." Andrew Vanacore, of The Times Picayune, wrote in 2013 that Franklin was "top-notch". It has been named a Blue Ribbon School five times by the U.S. Department of Education, and was ranked 16 on the 2009 "America's Best High Schools" list by U.S. News & World Report. The class of 2008 produced 17 National Achievement Semifinalists, the most of any school in the United States. In 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranked the school as the best public high school in Louisiana and the 64th best in the United States. (Full article...)

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The St. Thomas School of Leipzig (German: Thomasschule zu Leipzig) was founded by the Augustinians in 1212 and is one of the oldest schools in the world. St. Thomas School is well known for its art, language and music education. The Humanistic Gymnasium has a very long list of distinguished former students, including Richard Wagner (1813–1883) and many members of the Bach family.

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1887 – Teacher Anne Sullivan meets Helen Keller for the first time in Tuscumbia, Alabama.

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1887 – The first public secondary school in Thailand, Suankularb Wittayalai School, is established by King Chulalongkorn.

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1996 – The Dunblane massacre, a multiple murder-suicide in which sixteen children and one adult are killed, occurs at Dunblane Primary School in the Scottish town of Dunblane. It remains the deadliest single targeted mass homicide on children in the history of the United Kingdom.

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1937 – A natural gas leak causes an explosion, destroying the New London School of the city of New London, Texas. The disaster kills in excess of 295 students and teachers, making it the worst catastrophe to take place in a U.S. school building.

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... that the Bolhrad High School (pictured) in Bolhrad, Ukraine, was founded by the Bessarabian Bulgarian diaspora as the first high school of the Bulgarian National Revival period?
... that the now defunct Heritage Christian School in Hillsboro, Oregon, once held a chariot race?
... that despite being located in Worcester, Massachusetts, the Assumption Preparatory School followed French custom in holding classes on Saturday mornings but not on Thursday or Saturday afternoons?

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Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (née McLeod; July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican Women's Journal, and presided as president or leader for a myriad of African American women's organizations including the National Association for Colored Women and the National Youth Administration's Negro Division.

She also was appointed as a national adviser to president Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom she worked with to create the Federal Council on Colored Affairs, also known as the Black Cabinet. She is well-known for starting a private school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida. It later continued to develop as Bethune-Cookman University. (Full article...)

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... that American educator Alan T. Busby was the first African-American student to attend the University of Connecticut, graduating in 1918?
... that Sallyanne Payton, Stanford Law School's first African-American graduate, served as an adviser for the Clinton Health Care Reform Task Force?
... that the Royal Dental Hospital opened the first dental school in Britain in 1859?
... that Cowbridge Girls School, built in 1896, was unusual for its time in providing a science laboratory for the students?
... that the first state superintendent of schools for Georgia was a one-armed former dentist?
... that "What do you hope to achieve with this?" were the last words of the Nigerian college student Deborah Yakubu while being lynched for alleged blasphemy?
... that Sam Smith left the University of Louisville after being found to be academically ineligible for its basketball team, claiming the school was "too big for him"?
... that it was said that public school teacher Arthur Hathaway Hewitt "'hath-a-way' of striking terror into the hearts of all who dare oppose him"?

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Image 1Loyola 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 2Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 3Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 4Vammala's vocational school in Sastamala, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 5Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 6Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 7Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 8Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 9St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 10St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 11City College of New York (from College)
Image 12The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 13Based around the Notre Dame Cathedral, the Notre Dame School was an important centre of polyphonic music (from Music school)
Image 14Albert 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 15Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 16King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 17Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 18Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 19Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 20A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 21One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 22First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 23Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 24The University of Cambridge (founded in 1209) and many other universities were founded during the middle ages. (from History of education)
Image 25To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 26A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 27Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 28Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 29ESL online learning (from School)
Image 30Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 31Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 32Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. (from Music school)
Image 33King'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 34Vocational school in Nurmijärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 35Scripps College (from College)
Image 36Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 37West 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 38The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 39Pomona College (from College)
Image 40A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 41Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 42Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 43The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 44Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 45Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational 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 47The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 48The activity of carrying out the flag ceremony at Indonesian schools every Monday morning, With the aim of educating discipline and a sense of national spirit (from School)
Image 49Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 50Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University, has more than 1,600 students (from Music school)
Image 51György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 52The Oberlin Conservatory of Music shares its campus with Oberlin College. (from Music school)
Image 53Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 54Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 55SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 56RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka. (from College)
Image 57Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)

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