Talk:Secondary school

"Segunda enseñanza" in Colombia (???)
Nobody in Colombia uses that expression... We use "básica secundaria" and "educación media". It looks like the person who linked "Education in Colombia" didn't bother about reading it.

Brayan Habid (talk) 14:43, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Other countries (???)
This page lack the school systems of more important countries than Somalia and Saudi Arabia. What about France or Germany? 79.211.190.150 (talk) 18:20, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

In France :

Children may enter "école maternelle" since 3 years old. (In private schools they may enter before if clean ; depends of interview with school director/ess)

At 6 years old they must enter school "école élémentaire". Classrooms are called "CP" cours préparatoire ; "CE1" "CE2" cours élémentaire ; "CM1" "CM2" cours moyen. Total 5 years. CP rarely repeated.

At about 11 years old (if not repeated previously) they enter "collège". Classes are called "6e" (sixième), "5e" (cinquième)... "3e" (troisème).

After "5e" if they have a special gift about craft (or if they are disgusted of lecture course) they may enter "CPPN" instead of continuing "4e". (For legal reason, they cannot begin work nor apprenticeship before being 16 years old. CPPN are now replaced by SEGPA etc https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classe_pr%C3%A9-professionnelle_de_niveau see links down)

At about 15 years old they enter "lycée" (high school ?). Classes : "2nde" (seconde), "1e" (première), "terminale" : the countdown aims the "baccalauréat" (Abitur in German ; "A level" in UK ? ; "high school diploma" in USA ? ; "HSC / VCE" in Australia ?).

"Collèges" seem to have been created in XIIth century https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coll%C3%A8ge_en_France#Avant_la_Révolution

Germany : if i well remind, German count like English : 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 classes when French count 6,5,4,3,2,1,T.

Magnon86 (talk) 20:02, 23 January 2018 (UTC)magnon86


 * We have a summary of the French system at Secondary education in France.  Dbfirs  22:11, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

Look at grades
More material is being added referring to the ambiguous term 'grade', this has been discussed many times before. It is convenient not global. There is a template available, so that an age equivalent conversion can be added. See grade to investigate its potential. ClemRutter (talk) 10:08, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

England (forms)
In the table with ages and US/UK names for the age groups, reference actually calls it "Old British system" rather than "England (forms)". The reference seems more correct on this, also the table might be better if it included the UK "key stages" instead as the "England (forms)" row is for outdated terminology. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Capturts (talk • contribs) 14:21, 31 January 2019 (UTC)

An issue about the usage of the i.e. in the "Secondary school" page
In the "Secondary school" page. There's a sentence, "some UK private schools, i.e. public schools, admit pupils between the ages of 13 and 18.", in the paragrph two. I think the "i.e." which in this sentence aimed at to explan the meaning of private schools. It shows that "private schools" is public schools. I don't think this statement is right. I hope someone who know that can check for it. I'm not an English native speaker. If it is a misunderstand, please beg your pardon and teach me the true meaning of this word. Thank you. Yuzhouxingzou (talk) 08:30, 17 August 2023 (UTC)