High School

Definition: High School

High School

Noun

1. A public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12; "he goes to the neighborhood highschool".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Census

Dream Interpretation

Sports & Leisure

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: High School

School

Day school, boarding school, preparatory school, primary school, infant school, dame's school, grammar school, middle class school, Board school, denominational school, National school, British and Foreign school, collegiate school, art school, continuation school, convent school, County Council school, government school, grant-in-aid school, high school, higher grade school, military school, missionary school, naval school, naval academy, state-aided school, technical school, voluntary school, school; school of art; kindergarten, nursery, creche, reformatory.

Crosswords: High School

Our mission after leaving high school as two aspiring young punks, I think like the only two punks in Salt Lake City at the time, was to go to University and bring down the system. (S.L.C. Punk!; writing credit: James Merendino.)

I mean that's what high school was about, algebra, bad lunch, and infidelity. (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

There's something I can do for the talent, that I know how to do it since High School. (Miss Congeniality; writing credit: Marc Lawrence; Katie Ford)

One day, I'm a sophomore in high school, I bring home a report card, it's almost all A's so I go to the old man, ask him if I can take the car out as sort of a victory drive. (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass)

Searching for a boy in high school is like searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie. (Clueless; writing credit: Amy Heckerling.)

Took a big chance at the high school dance ("Walk This Way"; performing artist: Aerosmith)

In `65 tension was running high at my high school (MY HOMETOWN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

All through their high school days (Goodbye Earl; performing artist: Dixie Chicks)

I'm the flyest thing walking through jr. high school (Bow Wow [That's My Name]; performing artist: Lil Bow Wow)

They said they found my high school ring clutched in your fingers tight ("Teen Angel"; performing artist: Mark Dinning)

Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half (references; author: unknown)

High School Reunion (2003)

Platinum High School (1960)

High School Big Shot (1959)

Diary of a High School Bride (1959)

High School Hellcats (1958)

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Books

• Coaching Fast Break Football: Adapting the FSU Offense to High School Football (reference)

• Critical Encounters in High School English: Teaching Literary Theory to Adolescents (Language and Literacy (Paper), 51) (reference)

• How to Prepare for the CHSPE: California High School Proficiency Exam (reference)

• The Art and Business of High School Senior Portrait Photography (reference)

• Your First Year As a High School Teacher : Making the Transition from Total Novice to Successful Professional (reference)

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Periodicals

• Ohio High School Athlete (reference)

• Michigan High School Athletic Association Bulletin (reference)

• Alabama High School Sports Magazine (reference)

• Indiana Track Times: Indiana Boys And Girls High School Results (reference)

• National Directory Of High School Coaches (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Real Bout High School - The Final Battle (Vol. 4) (reference)

• High School Confidential (reference)

• Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (reference)

• Rock 'n' Roll High School (reference)

• A+ Guide to Transitions from High School to College for Special Education. (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• Middle & High School Mathematics 6.0 (reference)

• Standard Deviants Middle School and High School Math Master (4 CD-ROM) (reference)

• HIGH SCHOOL EXCELLENCE - (reference)

• High School Biology (reference)

• Mind Power Math: High School (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Shown are McKinley High School students with their teacher conducting scientific experiments at the schools laboratory. McKinley High School is part of NCI's "Adopt A School" Program. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

The images show the exterior of McKinley High School. Credit: Ernie Branson (photographer).

Student volunteers from the United Anglers work in the creek to clear it of debris. The students have worked at Adobe Creek, planting vegetation, cleaning the stream and working to restore water flow to the creek for close to 15 years. The students are led by Tom Furrer their high school science teacher and the founder of United Anglers of Casa Grande High School. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Tom Furrer, the high school teacher, began the United Anglers of Case Grande as a way to actively engage students. Tom Furrer and another volunteer work to clean parts of the creek. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

High school students discuss a conservation issue during the Missouri Envirothon. Credit: Charlie Rahm.

Freddy Tetteh (l), Betty Overton and Evon Helena Sousa (r) prepare USDA commodity peaches at the T. C. Williams High School in Alexandria, VA., for the school lunch program. Credit: USDA.

Vernon Michael Washington a food service worker at F.C. Hammond Jr. High School in Alexendria, VA., prepares USDA commodity turkey for the school lunch program. Credit: USDA.

John F. Kennedy High School student Velton Welch collects a sample of a fungal culture at the ARS Southern Regional Research Center in New Orleans. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

John F. Kennedy High School students Christopher Thompson, Angela Archer, and Sean Gros use a rotary evaporator to concentrate a bacterial culture in an Agricultural Research Service Laboratory in New Orleans, Louisiana. Credit: USDA ARS News.

A science class from Burns High School explores Diamond Craters in the Burns District, Oregon. Credit: Scott Moore.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

About 50 percent of high school students reported they are not enrolled in physical education classes. (references)

A more sophisticated approach has shown promise for preventing steroid abuse among players on high school sports teams. (references)

However, there is a need to be vigilant in monitoring the national indices of use and abuse of stimulants among high school seniors. (references)

Business

School data from preschool to high school is available at SEP. (references)

It is estimated that each student spends about US $70-100 for books and material in a public junior high or high school. (references)

Total expenditures for education equal 7.0 percent of Taiwan's GDP. Education in Taiwan is both free and compulsory from elementary through junior high school. (references)

Children

Israel and the occupied territories

High school graduation rates for Arabs are significantly lower than for Jews. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

The full integration of elementary and high school classrooms in the Brcko District was successful. (references)

Ghana

In the 8 districts examined, there were 22,418 boys and 14,318 girls enrolled at the high school level. (references)

Civil Liberties

Djibouti

On October 10, police used tear gas to disperse a demonstration of unruly high school students; there were no reports of injuries. (references)

Swaziland

In 1999 an editor of an independent newspaper was arrested for criminal defamation after reporting that the King's latest fiancee, now one of his wives, was a high school dropout. (references)

Canada

The Tribunal was expected to issue a decision in January 2002. In September officials dropped charges against a high school student who was arrested in November 2000 for uttering threats. (references)

Economic History

Kuwait

Education (free through high school): Years compulsory--8. (references)

South Korea

Attendance--middle school 99%, high school 95%. Literacy--98%. (references)

Cyprus

Education: Years compulsory--6 in elementary; 3 in high school. (references)

Human Rights

Burkina Faso

They also stripped naked a number of citizens, including approximately 20 high school girls. (references)

Brazil

Since 1998 new hires have been required to have a high school diploma and to take human rights courses. (references)

Burkina Faso

Also in December 2000, progovernment vigilantes forced a high school teacher and student to flee Fada N'Gourma. (references)

Minorities

Poland

The goals of the program are to increase the number of Roma completing high school, help fight unemployment, and improve health care and safety for Roma. (references)

Tajikistan

A Slavic university and a Russian high school operate in Dushanbe with Russian as the language of instruction, but also include ethnic Tajik and Uzbek students. (references)

Romania

In Dumbraveni the Orthodox Church's opposition to a court-ordered resolution to share the local church has forced the Greek Catholics to hold their religious services in a high school. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

For university admission, students completing high school are required to pass examinations in four subjects: English language; mathematics; Arabic language; and religious studies. (references)

Travel

Sri Lanka

The Overseas School of Colombo offers programs for pre-school through twelfth grade and is the only international school offering an International Baccalaureate diploma, which is the equivalent of a diploma from an American high school. (references)

Ghana

The Lincoln Community School, a U.S. Department of State-supported school, has an American-based curriculum and teachers that are all certified to teach in the U.S. The Lincoln School is planning to offer the International Baccalaureate program effective academic year 2002-2003. The others are the Ghana International School, with a British-based curriculum, and the Kokrobitey School, which has U.S. high school year-abroad programs. (references)

Women

Italy

In 2000 ISTAT reported that employed women are more likely to have a high school diploma (34.7 percent) than employed men (28.5 percent). (references)

Samoa

In order to integrate women into the economic mainstream, the Government sponsors literacy programs and training programs for those not completing high school. (references)

Honduras

Under the law, women have equal access to educational opportunities; however, family pressures often impede the ambitions of girls who wish to attend high school. (references)

Worker Rights

Brazil

Young women who fall prey to trafficking schemes are typically between 18 and 27 years old, come from low-income families, and usually have not finished high school. (references)

Haiti

Three major teachers' unions--the CNEH, the National Union of Trained Teachers (UNNOH), and the High School Teacher's Union (GIEL)--continue to accuse the Ministry of National Education (MENJS) of unfair labor practices. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "high school": Agency for European Folk High School Work ♦ girls' high school ♦ graduation from high school ♦ high school diploma ♦ high school dropout ♦ high school graduation certificate ♦ high school student ♦ junior high school ♦ senior high school ♦ senior high school student ♦ senior high school teacher ♦ vocational high school. Additional references.

Albanian

që ka të bëjë me shkollë të mesme, i mesëm (average, medium, mesial, middle sized, secondary). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مدرسة ثانوية (secondary school), ‏المدرسة العليا. (various references)

Bulgarian 

средно училище (grammar school, secondary school), гимназия (grammar school). (various references)

Chinese 

職業中學 (vocational high school), 高中�"� (senior high school student), 大中學�"� (university and high school students), 初中 (junior high school). (various references)

Czech

střední škola (high, second school, secondary school), gymnázium (grammar school), škola druhého stupnì. (various references)

Danish

gymnasium (grammar school). (various references)

Dutch

middelbare school (secondary school), gymnasium. (various references)

Esperanto

gimnazio. (various references)

Faeroese

studentaskúli. (various references)

Finnish

oppikoulu (secondary school). (various references)

French

lycée, collège. (various references)

German

gymnasium (college, grammar school, gymnasium). (various references)

Greek 

γυμνάσιο (gym, gymnasium, junior high, secondary school), λύκειο (senior high). (various references)

Hebrew 

�'ימ� סי�" (gymnasium, secondary school), בית ספר תיכון (secondary school). (various references)

Hungarian

középiskola (middle school, secondary school). (various references)

Italian

liceo (lyceum). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ハイジャック防止法 (anti-highjack law, Haydn, HDTV, Heidelberg, heights, hibiscus, hiding, hi-fi, high heels, high jump, high pitch, high society, high tempo, high touch, highheeled shoes, high-necked, high-power, high-powered, high-speed, high-speed steel, high-tech, high-technology, Hi-Vision, Hyde Park, hydroculture, hydroplane, hydroplaning, hydroponics, hygenic cream, hyper, hypermarket, knee socks, late teens, refined taste, sensible), 新制高� � . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ハイスクール , し�"せい�"う�"う. (various references)

Manx

ard-schoill (grammar school, secondary school). (various references)

Pig Latin

ighhay oolschay

Portuguese

ginásio, col�gio. (various references)

Romanian

liceu (grammar school, gymnasium, lycee, lyceum, public school, secondary school), şcoalã secundarã (college, grammar school, secondary school). (various references)

Russian 

средняя школа (grammar school, middle school, secondary school). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

srednja škola (academy, secondary school), gimnazija (gymnasium). (various references)

Spanish

liceo (lyceum), escuela secundaria (junior high school). (various references)

Swedish

högskola (college, high-school, university), högre skola (high-school), latinläroverk, läroverk (high-school, secondary school), gymnasium (college, gymnasium, senior high school, upper secondary school). (various references)

Turkish

lise (gymnasium, high, lycee, senior high school). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trường cao trung. (various references)

Misspellings

"High School" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: highschool. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: coolish.

-4 letters: cholos, cohogs, cohosh, cologs, golosh, igloos, isolog, logics, school.

-5 letters: cholo, clogs, cohog, cohos, coils, colog, cools, highs, hooch, igloo, lochs, locos, logic, logoi, logos, olios, shool.