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Meaning of "upper school" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UPPER SCHOOL

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UPPER SCHOOL

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adverb
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Upper school is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES UPPER SCHOOL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Upper school

Upper schools tend to be schools within secondary education. Outside England, the term normally refers to a section of a larger school. There is some variation in the use of the term in England.

Definition of upper school in the English dictionary

The definition of upper school in the dictionary is the senior pupils in a secondary school, usually those in the fourth and fifth years and above.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UPPER SCHOOL

upper income bracket
upper jaw
Upper Karoo
upper lip
Upper Lough Erne
upper management
upper middle class
upper mordent
Upper Palaeolithic
Upper Palatinate
Upper Peninsula
upper ranks
upper regions
Upper Rhine
upper sideband
Upper Silesia
upper sixth
Upper Tunguska
Upper Volta
upper works

WORDS THAT END LIKE UPPER SCHOOL

after-school
business school
driving school
elementary school
graduate school
high school
home-school
infant school
junior high school
law school
medical school
middle school
old school
preschool
primary school
private school
public school
school
secondary school
senior high school
Sunday school

Synonyms and antonyms of upper school in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «upper school» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UPPER SCHOOL

Find out the translation of upper school to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of upper school from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «upper school» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

上学校
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

escuela superior
570 millions of speakers

English

upper school
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ऊपरी स्कूल
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

المدرسة العليا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

верхняя школы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

escola superior
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উচ্চ বিদ্যালয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

école supérieure
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sekolah menengah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Oberschule
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

上級学校
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

상위 학교
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sekolah menengah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trường trên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மேல் பள்ளி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उच्च शाळा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Üst okul
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

scuola superiore
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

szkoła średnia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Верхня школи
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

școală superioară
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανώτερο σχολείο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

boonste skool
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

högstadiet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

øvre skolen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of upper school

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UPPER SCHOOL»

The term «upper school» is regularly used and occupies the 66.092 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UPPER SCHOOL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about upper school

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UPPER SCHOOL»

Discover the use of upper school in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to upper school and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
25 Christian Upper School Assemblies
David Shiret. 25 Christian Upper School Assemblies 25 Christian Upper School Assemblies By David Shiret T1743 ISBN Front Cover.
David Shiret, 2005
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Appendix
Look over composition of Upper School pupils, taking each separately. 2ito 4. Look over composition of Middle School pupils, each one separately. 19 Saturday. 4 ' 3 f 9 to 10. Sixth pupils as on Monday - Wednes- Jnit-iM ") Middle and Upper ...
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Revenues and Management of Certain Colleges and Schools, and the Studies Pursued and Instruction Given Therein, 1864
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Report
Mr. Carter, Answers II. 18, 32. Evidence, .5872-5881. for admission into the Upper School should be entered in the order in which applications are received ; no boy's name, however, should be entered until he has completed his eighth year.
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Revenues and Management of Certain Colleges and Schools, and the Studies Pursued and Instruction Given Therein, 1864
4
Inside the Secondary Classroom (RLE Edu O)
Ashburton Girls' Upper School was also in new, purpose-built facilities, on open ground as far to the west of the Woodhouse/Gryll Grange campus as Morland was to the east. This single-sex upper school was based on the institution of the ...
Sara Delamont, Maurice Galton, 2014
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Upper Schools in Bedford: John Bunyan Upper School, ...
Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated.
LLC Books, 2010
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Inclusive Education at Work Students with Disabilities in ...
Accommodation The school was formed in 1990 as a result ofthe amalgamation oftwo secondary schools, the premises of one becoming the new lower school and the other the upper school. The fact that the lower school and upper school are ...
OECD, 2000
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Preparing Teachers to Teach with Technology
The Middle School students (grades 7 and 8} were one cohort. Cohort two comprised students in the Upper School (grades 9 and 10). The student sample was 46% female and 54% male in the Middle School; 59% female and 41% male in the ...
Charalambos Vrasidas, Gene V. Glass, 2005
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Positive Alternatives to Exclusion
Particular importance is placed, throughout the book, on valuing the domain of personal experience in the life of the school community.
Paul Cooper, Mary Jane Drummond, Susan Hart, 2013
9
The Colors of Excellence: Hiring and Keeping Teachers of ...
Although she has experienced prejudice at the school, she did find a confidant in the upper school principal, a person of color, who simultaneously serves as the director of diversity. According to the teacher, the upper school principal ...
Pearl Rock Kane, Alfonso J. Orsini, 2003
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Upper School Essentails Mathematics
This student book will provide: • provide teachers with a concise and easy to implement program that will satisfy the teaching and assessment requirements for the QCE Numeracy Short Course • provide material for those students who wish ...
Kathleen Towler, Rosemary Ellen Lee, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UPPER SCHOOL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term upper school is used in the context of the following news items.
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4 Hawken Upper School seniors in fatal Gates Mills car crash …
GATES MILLS, Ohio - Two Hawken Upper School seniors killed in a Gates Mills car crash have been identified. The Cuyahoga County Medical examiner said ... «newsnet5.com, May 15»
2
Minnesota high school senior accepted to all eight Ivy League schools
“It's pretty remarkable,” said Randy Comfort, upper school director at Mounds Park, a private school in Maplewood. “I'm surprised because it's so unheard of to ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Apr 15»
3
Cold, flu forces Cambridge Christian to close upper school until …
This week, about 25 percent of the students in upper school -- ninth through 12th-graders -- were out with colds or the flu, a Cambridge Christian School official ... «TBO.com, Oct 14»
4
Bedfordshire upper school celebrates record GCSE results
STUDENTS and teachers from Wootton Upper School have been celebrating today (Thursday, August 21), after a record number of students met their predicted ... «Bedfordshire News, Aug 14»
5
Staff and parents shocked by damning Ofsted report
Inspectors said Ferndown Upper School, which takes children from the Verwood area, suffered from inadequate teaching, inadequate pupil achievement and ... «Salisbury Journal, Mar 14»
6
Inspectors return to assess progress at Vandyke Upper School
Staff had been told the achievement of pupils, quality of teaching and its leadership and management all “require improvement” at Vandyke Upper School. «Leighton Buzzard Today, Dec 13»
7
Will new curriculum improve Mass. schools?
IT'S THE FIRST MATH LESSON of the year for eighth-graders in Michelle Calioro's class at Putnam Avenue Upper School in East Cambridge, and she is ... «Boston Globe, Oct 13»
8
School has some lessons to learn
The inspection at Vandyke Upper School on April 24 ruled that the achievement of pupils, quality of teaching and its leadership and management all “require ... «Leighton Buzzard Today, Jun 13»
9
Stratton Upper School GCSE results
Following its best ever A-level results, the Biggleswade school recorded grades that show that 53 per cent of students gained five or more GSCE passes ... «Biggleswade Today, Aug 12»
10
Sandy Upper School's A-Level and AS-Level results
The overall pass rate for Sandy Upper School's A-Levels was 98 per cent, ... High flyers for the A-Levels included Willem Zwetsloot, Rebekah Grassby and Lee ... «Biggleswade Today, Aug 12»

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