Comprehensive high school

Type of public high school in the United States

Comprehensive high schools are the most popular form of public high schools around the world, designed to provide a well-rounded education to its students, as opposed to the practice in some places in which examinations are used to sort students into different high schools for different populations. Other types of high schools specialize in university-preparatory school academic preparation, remedial instruction, or vocational instruction. The typical comprehensive high school offers more than one course program of specialization to its students. Comprehensive high schools generally offer a college preparatory course program and one or more foreign language, scientific or vocational course programs.^[1]

References

^ "Governor's Scholarship Programs". ScholarShare. Archived from the original on August 30, 2006. "A comprehensive public high school is a secondary school whose goal is to address the needs of all students, offering more than one course of specialization in its program. Comprehensive high schools usually have a college preparatory course and one or more scientific or vocational courses."

Academy (England)
Charter school
Community day school
Comprehensive school (British)
For-profit education
Free education
Free school (England)
Institute
Private school
UK private school
- preparatory
- public
University
Selective school
Separate school
Sink school
Specialist school (United Kingdom)
State or public school
State-integrated school (New Zealand)

By style / purpose

Progressive

Religious

By location

By scope

Historical

Ancient higher-learning institutions Platonic Academy Lyceum Monastic school Cathedral school Medieval university
Schools imposed on indigenous peoples	in Canada in New Zealand in South Africa in the United States
Informal or illegal	in Ireland in Greece in South Tyrol