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A school is the educational institution (and, in the case of in-person learning, the building) designed to provide learning environments for the teaching of students, usually 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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The Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney (PLC Sydney) is an independent early learning, primary and secondary school for girls, located in Croydon, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The school has a non-selective enrolment policy, and caters for approximately 1,500 girls from age 4 to 18, including day students and 65 boarders. Established in 1888 by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of NSW, PLC Sydney is the oldest continuously running Presbyterian Church school in its state.

PLC Sydney offers the option of Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) in Years 9 and 10 to supplement learning, in addition to the NSW Education Standards Authority courses (the HSC), as it enables students to sit examinations in globally recognised courses. From 2025, Cambridge A-Levels will be offered as an alternative to the HSC in Years 11 and 12. Students attend PLC Sydney from all regions of the greater metropolitan area, New South Wales, and overseas. The college is a founding member of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools and is affiliated with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia, the Junior School Heads Association of Australia, and the Australian Boarding Schools' Association. PLC Sydney is one of two Sydney schools in the Round Square organisation. Notable alumnae include the first qualified female architect in Australia and other pioneering women in education, law, and medicine. (Full article...)

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Raffles Institution is an independent boys' secondary school in Singapore. Founded in 1823 as Singapore Institution by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, it was consistently ranked as one of the top secondary schools in Singapore in the now-defunct official school rankings released by the Ministry of Education. Notable alumni include Yusof bin Ishak and Benjamin Henry Sheares, the first and second Presidents of Singapore, respectively.

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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 as one of its campus traditions, Pomona College reveres the number 47, having the bell in its clock tower chime on the 47th minute of the hour?

... that to raise desperately needed money, the first president of Pomona College, Cyrus G. Baldwin, built the first hydroelectric power station with high-voltage transmission in California in 1892?

... that the first superadobe earth dome (replacement pictured) at the Pomona College Organic Farm was built by students without authorization and was demolished by the college administration?

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Francis Xavier Talbot SJ (January 25, 1889 – December 3, 1953) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who was active in Catholic literary and publishing circles, and became the President of Loyola College in Maryland. Born in Philadelphia, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1906, and was educated at St. Andrew-on-Hudson and Woodstock College. He taught for several years in New York City and at Boston College, before entering publishing as the literary editor of America magazine in 1923, of which he became the editor-in-chief in 1936. While in this role, he was also active in founding and editing several academic journals, including Thought, and establishing various Catholic literary societies and book clubs. During World War II, he was chaplain to a Catholic organization that previewed movies for the National Legion of Decency. He also supported Franco's rule in Spain because of its support of Catholicism and opposition to communism; he also supported the US war effort. He was described as one of the early leaders of the revival of Catholic literature in the United States.

In 1947, Talbot was named the President of Loyola College in Maryland. He held the office for three years and then was briefly an archivist at Georgetown University before becoming a priest and historian of St. Aloysius Church. He was then assigned to Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown, where he died. (Full article...)

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... that upon being named the head football coach at Central College, C. A. Clingenpeel declared that "we will win one game this year" – and was correct?
... that Michael P. Walsh oversaw the construction of 15 buildings as the president of Boston College?
... that after being a college football player, William A. Brooks became a prominent surgeon, and had several hospitals named after him?
... that Green Bay Packers player Travis Glover started at three separate positions along the offensive line during his college football career?
... that Brian Kalbas helped recruit the player who would replace him in the number-one spot on his college tennis team?
... that a Nebraska radio station's plans to broadcast college sports were met with "audible gasps"?
... that Alan Wace recruited Walter Abel Heurtley, a former military prison governor, to help manage the students of the British School at Athens?
... that Tashy Bohm held the American public high school 100 meter backstroke record for seven years?

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The following are images from various school-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 2Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 3Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 4A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 5Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 6Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 7Pomona College (from College)
Image 8The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 9Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatoires (from Music school)
Image 10Roman portraiture fresco of a young man with a papyrus scroll, from Herculaneum, 1st century AD (from History of education)
Image 11Loyola 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 12Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 13To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 14The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 15Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 16City College of New York (from College)
Image 17The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 18Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 19Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 20A classroom block with schoolbag racks in Western Sydney, Australia (from School)
Image 21Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 22Nalanda - teaching platform (from History of education)
Image 23Bologna University in Italy, established in 1088 A.D., is the world's oldest university in continuous operation. (from History of education)
Image 24A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 25A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 26RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 27University of al-Qarawiyyin located in Fes, Morocco (from History of education)
Image 28A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 29King'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 30One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 31King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 32Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 33Pazhassiraja College in Pulpally, Kerala, India (from College)
Image 34Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 35Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 36Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 37Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 38West 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 39SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 40A high school in Milan in the 1920s (from History of education)
Image 41The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 42Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 43Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 44György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 45Literacy rates in Italy in 1861, shortly after the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy. Italy lacks Lazio and the Triveneto, which were subsequently annexed. (from History of education)
Image 46Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 47Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 48First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 49Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 50Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 51Dansk Skolemuseum (from History of education)
Image 52World 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 53Albert 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 54Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 55A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 56Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 57Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 58Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 59Scripps College (from College)
Image 60Established in 1224 by Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, University of Naples Federico II in Italy is the world's oldest state-funded university in continuous operation. (from History of education)
Image 61Mosaic from Pompeii (1st c. BC) depicting Plato's Academy (from History of education)
Image 62A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 63St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 64Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 65Aristotle and his disciples – Alexander, Demetrius, Theophrastus, and Strato, in an 1888 fresco in the portico of the National University of Athens (from History of education)
Image 66Istanbul University (1453) was founded by sultan Mehmed II as a Darülfünun. On 1 August 1933, as part of Atatürk's reforms, it was reorganized and became the Republic's first modern university. (from History of education)
Image 67Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 68Typical school furniture of the period 1930s to 1950s in France (from History of education)
Image 69Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 70St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)