By funding: Free education • Private school • Public school • Independent school • Independent school (UK) • Grammar school • Charter school Students in Rome, Italy. ... Primary or elementary education consists of the first years of formal, structured education that occurs during childhood. ... Middle school (also known as intermediate school or junior high school) covers a period of education that straddles primary education and secondary education, serving as a bridge between the two. ... High school - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Free education is a policy stance in politics that ensures education for its citizens up to a certain level. ... Private schools, or independent schools, are schools not administered by local, state, or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public (state) funds. ... The term public school has different (and in some cases contradictory) meanings due to regional differences. ... An independent school is a school which is not dependent upon national or local government for financing its operation and is instead operated by tuition charges, gifts, and perhaps the investment yield of an endowment. ... An independent school in the United Kingdom is a school that relies for all or most of its funding on non-governmental sources. ... Grammar school can refer to various types of schools in different English-speaking countries. ... Charter schools are publicly funded elementary or secondary schools that have been freed from some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public schools, in exchange for some type of accountability for producing certain results, which are set forth in each charter schools charter. ...

By style of education: Day school • Free school • Alternative school • Parochial school • Boarding school • Magnet school • Cyberschool • K-12 A day school is an institution where children are given educational instruction only during the day and after which children return to their homes. ... A free school (or free skool) is a decentralized network in which skills, information, and knowledge are shared without hierarchy and the institutional environment of formal schooling. ... Great Neck Village School, an alternative school in Great Neck, New York in the United States In 1970, there were only a few alternative schools in operation in the United States. ... A parochial school (or faith school) is a type of private school which engages in religious education in addition to conventional education. ... A boarding school is a school where some or all students not only study but also live, amongst their peers but away from their home and family. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Cyberschool is an education program in which normal curriculum is taught in an online forum, instead of inside of a classroom. ... K-12 (Pronounced Kay through twelve or just Kay twelve) is the North American designation for primary and secondary education. ...

By scope: Compulsory education • Comprehensive school • Vocational school • University-preparatory school • University Compulsory education is education which is required by the government, usually at the national level. ... A Comprehensive school is a type of school providing secondary level education in England or Wales. ... A vocational school, providing vocational education and also sometimes referred to as a trade school or career college, is one operated for the express purpose of giving its students the skills needed to perform a certain job or jobs. ... A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school (usually abbreviated to preparatory school, college prep school, or prep school) is a private secondary school designed to prepare a student for higher education. ... Representation of a university class, 1350s. ...