school

noun ⇨ See also ↑high school

ADJECTIVE

▪ nursery

▪ comprehensive, first, grammar, junior, middle, prep, preparatory, senior (all in the UK)

▪ elementary, grade (informal), high, junior high, middle (all in the US)

▪ primary, secondary (both esp. BrE)

▪ charter (AmE), fee-paying, independent, private, public, state (BrE) (In Britain ‘public schools’ are private. In the US a public school is a free local school paid for by the government. In the UK, this type of free school is called a ‘state school’.)

▪ special

▪

She attends a special school for children with learning difficulties.

▪ coed (informal), co-educational, mixed (BrE)

▪ single-sex

▪ all-boys, all-girls, boys', girls'

▪ boarding, residential (BrE)

▪ day

▪ faith (BrE), mainstream, religious

▪ Catholic, Christian, Islamic, Muslim, etc.

▪ Bible, Hebrew, Sunday

▪ summer

▪ inner-city, local, neighbourhood/neighborhood, parochial (AmE), rural, village (BrE)

▪ night (old-fashioned)

▪ finishing

▪ prep, preparatory (= a school that prepares students for college) (in the US)

▪ grad, graduate (both AmE)

▪ trade, vocational (both AmE)

▪ training

▪ art, business, divinity (AmE), drama, film, law, med (informal, esp. AmE), medical, military

▪ dance, driving, language, riding

▪ prestigious

▪ beacon (BrE), magnet (AmE)

▪ failing

▪

It is a failing school with some of the worst results in the city.

VERB + SCHOOL

▪ attend, go to

▪ enter (esp. AmE), start

▪ finish, leave (BrE), quit (AmE)

▪ stay in

▪ be expelled from, be kicked out of (esp. AmE)

▪

He was expelled from school for verbally abusing his teacher.

▪ drop out of

▪ bunk off (BrE, informal), ditch (AmE), play hooky from (AmE), play truant from (BrE), skip

▪ be off (BrE), stay home from (AmE), stay off (BrE)

▪

Eric is off school again.

▪

My parents let me stay home from school yesterday.

▪

My parents let me stay off school yesterday.

▪ keep sb home from (AmE), keep sb off (BrE)

▪

You don't need to keep your child home from school because of a cough.

▪

You don't need to keep your child off school because of a cough.

▪ teach (AmE)

▪

She teaches elementary school in Atlanta.

▪ run

▪

He runs a karate school in San Jose, California.

SCHOOL + NOUN

▪ child (usually schoolchildren), kid (informal) (usually schoolkids)

▪ boy, girl (usually schoolboy, schoolgirl)

▪ pupil (esp. BrE, becoming old-fashioned), student

▪ friend, mate (usually schoolmate) (both esp. BrE)

▪ teacher (usually schoolteacher)

▪

She's a middle-school teacher.

▪ master, mistress (usually schoolmaster, schoolmistress) (old-fashioned, esp. BrE)

▪ head teacher (BrE), principal (AmE)

▪ administrator, counselor (both AmE)

▪ governor (esp. BrE)

▪ auditorium (esp. AmE), building, classroom, hall, library

▪ playground, yard (usually schoolyard) (AmE)

▪ day

▪

The next day was Monday, a school day.

▪

It was just a typical school day.

▪ semester (esp. AmE), term, year

▪ holidays (BrE), vacation (AmE)

▪ bus

▪ run (= the journey that parents make to take their children to school) (BrE)

▪ dinners (BrE), lunch (esp. AmE), meals (BrE)

▪ rules

▪ uniform

▪ assembly

▪ age

▪

children of school age

▪

school-age children

▪ days (usually schooldays)

▪

She hadn't seen Laura since her schooldays.

▪ district (AmE)

▪ curriculum

▪ voucher (AmE)

PREPOSITION

▪ after school

▪

We're going to play football after school.

▪

a range of after-school activities

▪ at (a/the) school (BrE)

▪

She didn't do very well at school.

▪

Their son's at the school near the station.

▪ in (a/the) school

▪

Are your children still in school? (AmE)

▪

the cleverest child in the school

PHRASES

▪ be on the way home from school

▪ get ready for school

▪ get out of school

▪ come home from, get home from

▪ do well at school (BrE), do well in school (esp. AmE)

▪

Amy is doing extremely well in school and gets top marks in every class.

▪ leave for school