(in the UK) a secondary school of a kind offering a general education to children not selected for grammar or technical schools.
Example sentencesExamples
- I hear no calls for the return of the secondary modern schools.
- This ignores all those pupils who go to secondary modern schools and are discriminated against by the selection system.
- He also mentioned his days at the secondary modern school where they both spent their latter teenage years.
- Grammar schools and secondary modern schools re-organised as comprehensives.
- Derek went to a secondary modern school and was not noted for academic brilliance, but he was good at making things with his hands.
- And, because some London comprehensive schools are secondary modern schools by another name, there is a natural desire to pick and choose.