Portal:Schools

The Schools portal

Introduction

A school is both the educational institution and building designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools that can be built and operated by both government and private organization. The names for these schools vary by country (discussed in the Regional terms section below) but generally include primary school for young children and secondary school for teenagers who have completed primary education. An institution where higher education is taught is commonly called a university college or university.

In addition to these core schools, students in a given country may also attend schools before and after primary (elementary in the U.S.) and secondary (middle school in the U.S.) education. Kindergarten or preschool provide some schooling to very young children (typically ages 3–5). University, vocational school, college or seminary may be available after secondary school. A school may be dedicated to one particular field, such as a school of economics or dance. Alternative schools may provide nontraditional curriculum and methods. (Full article...)

Refresh with new selections below (purge)

Selected article - show another

Entries here consist of Good and Featured articles, which meet a core set of high editorial standards.

School District 53 Okanagan Similkameen is a school district that serves fragments of the southern Okanagan and lower Similkameen regions, which include Cawston, Hedley, Keremeos, Okanagan Falls, Oliver, and Osoyoos, totaling to six communities in the district, all of which are in British Columbia, Canada. Its main "maintenance department" office is held in Oliver, consisting of ten schools, five of which are elementary, three are high or secondary schools, while two are alternative schools. This district's superintendent is Marcus Toneatto, while 2,665 students attend schools in it; there are 480 employees for the Okanagan Simlkammen school district. Their motto is "Learning Today for Living Tomorrow", and all places within the district are towns or villages.

In addition to the conventional school programs, School District 53 offers three adult learning outlets, an outreach school, three early learning centres, as well as one elementary hockey academy; the district supports Aboriginal people. It provides a school bus transportation service, in order for children to get to their school and home, being responsible to the Director of Facilities. This bus service has been considered for expansion. School District 53 maintains a policy on emergency, which was amended on April 30, 2008. There is also a "smoke-free" policy that was amended on September 26, 2007. (Full article...)

List of selected articles

Selected image

Stonyhurst College looking from the golf course towards the oldest part of the school

Credit: User:Imaginativename

Stonyhurst College is an independent, Roman Catholic school in the Jesuit tradition located in rural Lancashire, England. Founded in 1593, Stonyhurst has a long-standing literary tradition. Former pupil Sir Arthur Conan Doyle modelled "Baskerville Hall" on Stonyhurst Hall, and named Sherlock Holmes' nemesis, Moriarty, after a fellow pupil. J.R.R. Tolkien wrote part of the Lord of the Rings in a classroom on the Upper Gallery during his stay at the College.

More selected images

Read more...

In this month

November

2nd

1878 – Phillips Academy plays a game of football against Phillips Exeter Academy, starting one of the oldest high school football rivalries in the United States

10th

1900 – Kyunggi High School, the oldest modern secondary school in Korea, opens in South Korea under an edict by King Gojong

20th

1959 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, later the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989, and is often the day chosen by countries as their designated day to observe Universal Children's Day.

28th

1966 – The Plowden Report reviews Primary education in England in a wholesale fashion.

Archive

More did you know...

... that the Liberty Colored High School (pictured), built to replace a Rosenwald school for African-American students in Liberty, South Carolina, is now the Rosenwood community center?
... that Konawaena High School's 18th place finish in the 1990 World Solar Challenge was the basis for the 1996 film Race the Sun?
... that the 2009 film Heart of Stone is the story of Weequahic High School beset by gangs, and its principal working with Black and Jewish alumni and gang members to restore its glory prior to 1960?

Selected biography - show another

Major-General Sir Fabian Arthur Goulstone Ware KCVO KBE CB CMG (17 June 1869 – 28 April 1949) was a British educator, journalist, and the founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC), now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). He also served as Director of Education for the Transvaal Colony and editor of The Morning Post.

Born in Clifton, Bristol, he graduated from the University of Paris in 1894. After working in various education capacities, he travelled to the Transvaal Colony where, as a member of Milner's Kindergarten, he became Director of Education in 1903. Two years later, Ware became editor of The Morning Post and returned to England. While editor, he expanded the paper and reoriented it to focus on colonial affairs. After several controversies, culminating in a failed effort to purchase an airship for the United Kingdom, Ware was forced to retire in 1911. (Full article...)

List of selected biographies

Did you know (auto-generated) - load new batch

... that Oxford suffragist Myvanwy Rhys earned first-class honours from Newnham College, Cambridge, but was denied a degree?
... that the veto of an Indiana law that bans transgender girls from participating in school sports was overridden by the state legislature?
... that Green Bay Packers player Travis Glover started at three separate positions along the offensive line during his college football career?
... that elementary school students named the Wooden Warrior roller coaster?
... that Nick Kerbawy did not receive his college tennis championship trophy until 14 years after winning it?
... that Cornell College professor Harriette Cooke was also a deaconess?
... that before Sean Jackson won three Ivy League basketball championships, he won high school state championships in both baseball and basketball?
... that Washington College is investigating the possibility of turning the Chestertown Armory into a bed and breakfast?

General images

The following are images from various school-related articles on Wikipedia.

Image 1Pomona College (from College)
Image 2A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 3Roman portraiture fresco of a young man with a papyrus scroll, from Herculaneum, 1st century AD (from History of education)
Image 4West Park Secondary School in Toronto is an example. It was built in 1968 for students with slow learning or special needs. (from Vocational school)
Image 5Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 6World map indicating Education Index (2007/2008 Human Development Report)
- 0.950 and over
- 0.900–0.949
- 0.850–0.899
- 0.800–0.849
- 0.750–0.799
- 0.700–0.749
- 0.650–0.699
- 0.600–0.649
- 0.550–0.599
- 0.500–0.549
- 0.450–0.499
- 0.400–0.449
- 0.350–0.399
- under 0.350
- not available
(from History of education)
Image 7Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 8Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 9RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 10Dansk Skolemuseum (from History of education)
Image 11Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 12Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 13University of al-Qarawiyyin located in Fes, Morocco (from History of education)
Image 14King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 15Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 16A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 17King's College London in 1831, as engraved by J. C. Carter. It is one of the founding institutions of University of London, established in 1836. (from History of education)
Image 18Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 19Literacy rates in Italy in 1861, shortly after the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy. Italy lacks Lazio and the Triveneto, which were subsequently annexed. (from History of education)
Image 20Pazhassiraja College in Pulpally, Kerala, India (from College)
Image 21St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 22Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 23To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 24Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 25Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 26Loyola School, Chennai, India – run by the Catholic Diocese of Madras. Christian missionaries played a pivotal role in establishing modern schools in India. (from School)
Image 27A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 28A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 29Bologna University in Italy, established in 1088 A.D., is the world's oldest university in continuous operation. (from History of education)
Image 30Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 31Established in 1224 by Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, University of Naples Federico II in Italy is the world's oldest state-funded university in continuous operation. (from History of education)
Image 32Istanbul University (1453) was founded by sultan Mehmed II as a Darülfünun. On 1 August 1933, as part of Atatürk's reforms, it was reorganized and became the Republic's first modern university. (from History of education)
Image 33The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 34One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 35City College of New York (from College)
Image 36The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 37St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 38Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 39Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 40Mosaic from Pompeii (1st c. BC) depicting Plato's Academy. (from History of education)
Image 41A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 42Aristotle and his disciples – Alexander, Demetrius, Theophrastus, and Strato, in an 1888 fresco in the portico of the National University of Athens (from History of education)
Image 43Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 44György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 45Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 46Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 47Nalanda - teaching platform (from History of education)
Image 48Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 49The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 50Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 51A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 52Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 53Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 54Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 55Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 56A high school in Milan in the 1920s. (from History of education)
Image 57Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 58Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatories (from Music school)
Image 59SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 60Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 61The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 62Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 63Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 64Typical school furniture of the period 1930s to 1950s in France (from History of education)
Image 65First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 66A classroom block with schoolbag racks in Western Sydney, Australia (from School)
Image 67Albert Bettannier's 1887 painting La Tache noire depicts a child being taught about the "lost" province of Alsace-Lorraine in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War – an example of how European schools were often used in order to inoculate Nationalism in their pupils. (from School)
Image 68Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 69Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 70Scripps College (from College)

Related portals

Topics

International schools (Select "show" to view)

Lists

Wikiprojects

WikiProject Schools

Wikiproject Education • Wikiproject Education in Australia • Wikiproject Education in Canada • Wikiproject Academics • Wikiproject Alternative education • Wikiproject School Years • School and university projects • Deletion sorting/Schools

What are WikiProjects?

Things you can do

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests :

WikiProject Schools/Article requests
Assess :

Assessment requests
Cleanup :

Schools needing cleanup, WikiProject Schools articles to be moved
Copyedit :

Articles in need of emergency, short term attention, Schools articles needing expert attention
Deletion sorting :

WikiProject Deletion sorting/Schools
Infobox :

School articles without infoboxes
Maintain :

Portal:Schools
Photo :

Wikipedia requested images of schools
Stubs :

Stub-Class school articles
Other :

Join the project and add {{User WikiProject Schools}} to your talk page. Place the project banner {{WikiProject Schools}} on the talk pages of all articles within the scope of the project. Read the pages at Wikipedia:Schools for the current discussions on school policy.

Subcategories

Category puzzle

Select [►] to view subcategories

Schools

Schools by association

Schools by populated place

Schools by continent

Schools by country

Schools by country subdivision

Schools by dependent territory

Schools by medium of instruction

Schools by type

Lists of schools

Lists of people by school affiliation

School accreditors

Associations of schools

Awards given to schools

School boards

School buildings

School buses

School and classroom behaviour

School colors

Defunct schools

Regional education units

School districts

School examinations

Fiction about schools

History of schools

School mascots

Schools founded by missionaries

School museums

Schools named after British royalty

Patrons of schools

School police departments

Redirects from schools

Wikipedia categories named after schools

Select [►] to view subcategories

Educational institutions by year of establishment

Recognized content

Extended content

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged (e.g. {{WikiProject Schools}}) or categorized correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.