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A school is a community of learners where pupils can learn skills needed for life. In most systems of organised education, students progress through a series of schools: primary school, secondary school, and possibly a university, vocational school or a college. A school may also be dedicated to one particular field, such as a school of economics or a school of dance. In homeschooling and online schools, teaching and learning take place outside of a traditional school building.

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Wilson's School is a boys' grammar school in Wallington, in the London Borough of Sutton, England. Admission is based on performance in an entrance test. Around 1,000 pupils are taught there.

It was founded as Wilson's Grammar School in Camberwell in 1615, moving to its present location on part of the site of the former Croydon Airport in 1975, changing its name in the process. The move was due to concerns over the size of the facilities, government policy being against grammar schools at the time, and the wish of Sutton Council to have an additional grammar school.

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Lawrence Dale Bell High School part of the Hurst-Euless-Bedford School District. The school is named for Lawrence Dale Bell, the founder of Bell Helicopter Textron.

Previously featured: Aquinas College - Scotch College, Perth - Plano Senior High School - Plano High School American Football team of 1900, Hopkins School - Gordonstoun - Harrow School chapel More featured pictures edit

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Aquinas College, Perth – Auburn High School – Balboa High School – Baltimore City College – Broad Run High School – History of Baltimore City College – Hopkins School – Hurst-Euless-Bedford Independent School District – Lubbock High School – Plano Senior High School – Robert College – Scotch College, Perth – Stuyvesant High School – The Preuss School UCSD – Westfield High School (Fairfax County, Virginia)

N.B. Italicised articles are Featured articles.

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Did you know...

... that Alexander Pope was expelled from Twyford School for writing a poem that poked fun at one of his school masters?

... that in 1973, Margaret Thatcher temporarily saved the Strand Grammar School, famous for its contribution of young men to the British Civil Service, from closure?

... that the Nebraska School for the Deaf became nationally known within the Deaf community for its fight against an anti-American Sign Language state bill endorsed by Alexander Graham Bell?

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Visit Schoolwatch for information on school articles needing work.
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Help out at the Schools Collaborations of the Week.

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