Informatics Educational Institutions & Programs

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.

Pūnana Leo (lit. 'voice nest'; often translated as "language nest") are private, non-profit preschools run by families, in which the Hawaiian language is the language of instruction and administration.

Initially opened illegally, the first Pūnana Leo opened in 1984 in Kekaha, Kauaʻi. Based on the practices of 19th-century Hawaiian-language schools, as well as the Māori language revival kindergartens in New Zealand, the Pūnana Leo was the first indigenous language immersion preschool project in the United States. Graduates from the Pūnana Leo schools have achieved several measures of academic success in later life. (Full article...)

List of selected articles

Selected image

Samuel Phillips Hall at Phillips Academy

Credit: Public domain via User:Jfg284

Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts is the oldest continuously running incorporated boarding school in the United States. Among other notable alumni, Andover has educated two American Presidents, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, Law and Order creator Dick Wolf, four Medal of Honor recipients, inventor Samuel Morse, and author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr..

More selected images

Read more...

In this month

September

7th

1992 – The first Charter School in the United States, City Academy High School, opens in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

10th

2002 – Business Academy Bexley in the London Borough of Bexley, England, is the first British school to open under the Academy programme, independently run secondary schools that receive public funding.

21st

1949 – Britain's first comprehensive school, Holyhead County School (now renamed Holyhead High School), opens in Wales.

23rd

1957 – President Dwight Eisenhower orders a battle group of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division to escort nine students into Little Rock Central High School. This enforcement of Brown v. Board of Education is considered to be one of the most important events in the Civil Rights Movement.

Archive

More did you know...

... that the old school building in Albany, New York (pictured) where Joseph Henry co-discovered electrical inductance is now named after him?

... that Trafalgar High School, established for non-whites in Cape Town, defiantly refused to move after its part of the city was declared "whites only"?

... that the Nebraska School for the Deaf became nationally known within the Deaf community for its fight against an anti-American Sign Language state bill endorsed by Alexander Graham Bell?

Did you know archive

Selected biography - show another

Jeffrey in 1916

Percy Shaw Jeffrey FRGS (14 March 1862 Cheltenham, England – 22 February 1952) was a respected English schoolmaster and author of several books on a range of topics, including significant contributions towards the teaching of phonetics in schools. Shaw Jeffrey taught at a variety of schools before spending sixteen years as headmaster at Colchester Royal Grammar School. With his wife, Alice, he retired first to South Africa, then to the town of Whitby, North Yorkshire, in 1916, where he spent his time between numerous trips to countries around the world. (Full article...)

List of selected biographies

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

... that the Madrasa Ghaziuddin Khan is one of the few surviving madrasas dating from the Mughal Empire, and the oldest continuing school in Delhi, India?
... that Jay Owen Light aspired to be an astronaut before becoming the dean of Harvard Business School?
... that Walter Nolen was ranked by ESPN and USA Today as the number-one player in the 2022 college football recruiting class?
... that a Pennsylvania TV station is experimenting with datacasting educational content to school students and prison inmates?
... that Gret Palucca had to close her dance school in Dresden, Germany, in 1939 because of her Jewish descent, but reopened it in 1945?
... that as a high schooler in 2018, Logan O'Hoppe caught a home-run ball at Yankee Stadium hit by visiting player Manny Machado and was televised throwing it back on the field?
... that Edward A. McGurk disbanded the College of the Holy Cross's football team because he did not want it playing outside Worcester?
... that codebreaker Emily Anderson was trained to become a Hush WAAC before she joined the British GCHQ?

General images

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

Image 1World 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 2Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 3Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
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 5Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 6SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 7Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 8King'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 9Nalanda - teaching platform (from History of education)
Image 10To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 11Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)
Image 12King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 13St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 14The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 15Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 16Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 17Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 18A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 19A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 20Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 21György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 22Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 23Aristotle 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 24Bologna University in Italy, established in 1088 A.D., is the world's oldest university in continuous operation. (from History of education)
Image 25A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 26City College of New York (from College)
Image 27Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 28Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 29Typical school furniture of the period 1930s to 1950s in France (from History of education)
Image 30Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 31St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 32Mosaic from Pompeii (1st c. BC) depicting Plato's Academy. (from History of education)
Image 33Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 34A high school in Milan in the 1920s. (from History of education)
Image 35Literacy 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 36Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 37Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 38Established 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 39Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 40Dansk Skolemuseum (from History of education)
Image 41Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 42RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 43Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 44Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 45A classroom block with schoolbag racks in Western Sydney, Australia (from School)
Image 46One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 47Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 48First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 49The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 50Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 51Loyola 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 52The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 53A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 54The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 55Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 56Roman portraiture fresco of a young man with a papyrus scroll, from Herculaneum, 1st century AD (from History of education)
Image 57Pomona College (from College)
Image 58Istanbul 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 59Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 60University of al-Qarawiyyin located in Fes, Morocco (from History of education)
Image 61Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 62Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 63A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 64Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatories (from Music school)
Image 65Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 66Albert 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 67Scripps College (from College)
Image 68Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 69A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)