secondary modern school

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   a former British secondary school emphasizing practical rather than academic education

   Broadersecondary school

Questions about secondary modern school

What does secondary modern school mean?

secondary modern school means "a former British secondary school emphasizing practical rather than academic education".

Is secondary modern school a common word?

secondary modern school is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.