Sunday school

noun

Definition of Sunday schoolnext
as in charter school

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  1. charter school
  2. secondary school
  3. elementary school
  4. magnet school
  5. primary school
  6. high school
  7. public school
  8. common school
Noun
  • One such charter school opened over the summer in a closed Liberty City elementary school site.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026
  • However, homeschoolers affiliated with a public charter school can frequently receive education benefits to enhance their homeschooling.
    — Bianca Vázquez Toness, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of charter school
Noun
  • Students carry out a blocking protest at the Cesar Baggio secondary school in Lille on September 29, 2026.
    — Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The killing took place last October at the secondary school in Selangor, near Kuala Lumpur, defense attorney Kitson Foong said, per the Independent.
    — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of secondary school
Noun
  • Then in 1989, an assailant attacked an elementary school in Stockton, California, using an assault rifle to kill five people and wound 29, prompting public outcry and calls to restrict such weapons.
    — Robert Spitzer, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026
  • One of Miami’s most prominent private high schools made an offer to buy an active elementary school site from Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
    — Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of elementary school
Noun
  • The district also plans to open a new K-8 magnet school with an arts emphasis at Hulstrom's current campus in Northglenn.
    — Tori Mason, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Another big cluster of citations in South Miami-Dade occurred in the Kendall area near Terra Environmental Research Institute, a public magnet school; Kendale Elementary and the Kendall campus of Miami Dade College.
    — Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of magnet school
Noun
  • This week, as Spanish children across the country started their school year, the Reina Sofia primary school in Ceuta did its best to prepare for a normal first week, too – getting the front entrance clean and putting photos of teachers on the wall.
    — Colette Davidson, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2026
  • In each session, tutors also assist students with their homework assigned by their primary school.
    — Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of primary school
Noun
  • Suspensions and expulsions are associated with negative outcomes, including lower educational achievement, decreased likelihood of graduating high school and depression.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
  • However, the rule doesn’t apply to college athletes from the high school class of 2022 who did not redshirt as freshmen.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of high school
Noun
  • Plantation resident Candice D’Angelo’s seventh-grader goes to a Catholic school, and her first- and fourth-graders attend a public school.
    — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The offer came at a time when Miami-Dade County Public Schools, and many other public school districts in Florida, have closed or consolidated schools and are contemplating even more closures.
    — Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of public school
Noun
  • Hand in hand with that was the rise of literacy and the universal common school movement.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • Being outside of the scope of the requirement of the statutory definition of the common school system, charter schools fail to meet the definition required of a common school.
    — Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 20 Feb. 2026
Definition of common school
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