middle schooln.

1829 R. Gilbert Liber Scholast. 123 Manchester School..High Master, Jeremiah Smith, D.D...Master of Middle School, Rev. E. Elsdale, M.A...Master of Lower School, Rev. John Dallas.

1914 ‘I. Hay’ Lighter Side School Life viii. 224 The occasion of his first attendance at a meeting of the Middle School Debating Society.

1953 Sociometry 16 46 Almost every one of the fourteen boys was interested in games and athletics and they provided most of the middle-school athletics team.

1990 Independent (Nexis) 10 Nov. (Weekend section) 44 I carried my meat and potatoes into the Middle School staff room.

1838 S. Wilberforce in A. R. Ashwell Life S. Wilberforce (1880) I. iv. 117 It is very desirable that ultimately we should get the middle schools to as much uniformity as possible in the books they use.

1860 A. Jessopp Middle-class Exams. 15 Middle Schools—schools which occupy that large ‘terra incognita’ between the National School and the Grammar School.

1852 M. E. C. Walcott William of Wykeham 233 On whole school~days, morning school lasts from 7 till 8 a.m.; middle school from 9 until noon; evening school begins at 2, and ends at 6.

1842 Biblical Repertory Apr. 219 The thing is made to suit the latitude of every college, academy, common school, normal school, primary school, infant school, and every high, low, and middle school, in the republic.

c1865 Ann. Rep. Admin. Bombay Presidency 1863–4 156 Hitherto, in the reports of this Department, Education has been generally classified under the heads of (1) English, (2) Vernacular, (3) Industrial education. A division more suitable to the condition of general education in India has been lately suggested by the Supreme Government, viz:—(1) Superior, (2) Middle, (3) Primary.]

1870 Ann. Rep. Admin. Bengal 1869–70 v. i. 149 A large number of schools which last year ranked as lower schools have this year so far improved that they are now classified with middle schools.

1870 Proc. National Baptist Educ. Convention (U.S.) 10 Considered with reference to our public or elementary schools, the academy belongs to what in Europe are called middle schools, the elementary schools being the first in the series and the university the last. They answer..to the Gymnasia of Germany, the Grammar Schools, or the Great Public Schools of England.

1872 Ann. Rep. Admin. Bengal 1871–2 i. 221 Among ‘middle schools’ are ranked all the English schools which do not train up to the university standard, and a certain number of vernacular schools which teach more subjects than are included in the primary school course.

1892 Littell's Living Age 5 Nov. 358/1 Very charming work this middle school [in Japan] produces; the traces of the Western influence are distinctly visible.

1933 Education 1 Sept. 170/2 The basic idea of the new law is that non-Aryans..shall be admitted to Universities and to the higher and middle schools only in accordance with their ratio of the total population of Germany.

1950 N.Y. Times 1 Oct. 49/3 Political workers with inadequate schooling also form the nucleus of eighteen experimental (worker-peasant) middle schools established by the Government [sc. of China].

1960 School Managem. Nov. 106/1 The inter-relationship of the middle school's components..can provide the flexible, adaptable schools you will require for tomorrow's changing educational needs.

1962 E. Snow Other Side of River (1963) xxx. 227 Part-time and work~study middle schools are discussed in the next chapter.

1967 Primary Educ. in Wales (Dept. Educ. & Sci. Central Advisory Council Educ., Wales) iv. 23 We recommend the following long-term plan for primary education: Nursery stage (part-time, voluntary)..3 to median 5:6..Infants stage (First school) Median 5:6..to median 8:6..Junior stage (Middle school) Median 8:6 to median 12:6.

1971 Guardian 20 Oct. 1/8 Surrey..County Council..passed a scheme providing for middle schools followed by 12–18 comprehensives.

1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 3 Jan. b1 Despite the middle school desire to slow the rush to teendom, some things are still the same at Martin Luther King.

1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 1 June b30/5 [This book] will be of interest to all teachers in junior and middle schools.

1991 R. Cherrington China's Students (BNC) 94 I saw a young woman crying uncontrollably. When asked what the problem was, her friends told me she had just been assigned to teach in a distant, rural middle school.

1994 Toronto Star 8 Dec. ny1/1 North York's middle schools get a B grade from students and parents.

1998 Daily Tel. 25 Feb. 13/1 A Japanese language teacher at a middle school in Omiya, east of Tokyo, was arrested.