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State school - Definition and Overview

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State school is an expression used in the United Kingdom and other countries apart from the United States to distinguish schools provided by the government from "public schools" which are in fact private institutions.

In the United States, state school is a colloquial term for state university, a college or university in a state university system.

The oldest state school in England is Beverley Grammar School, which was founded in 700 AD.

Example Usage of school

aniekv: @Krizzii Kan jij regelen dat we met de BlubrBlog twitter op school op dat scherm komen in de binnenplaats? Daar komen jou tweets toch ook?
shnizoid: high school reunions, great great laugh!
theRSAorg: As always @RSAevents has a great talk today . The subject is the problem of school size. Listen live at 1pm - http://ow.ly/FP6t #rsaschools
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