The United States does not have a unified national or federal educational system. Although there are more than fifty independent systems of education, there are a number of similarities between them.
Public high school teachers in a classroom in North Carolina
Middle schoolchildren in a language arts class (2006)
A building on the campus of the New York Institute of Technology, founded in 1955 in Manhattan
The University of Miami, founded in 1925 in Coral Gables, Florida
High school or senior high school is the education students receive in the final stage of secondary education in the United States. In the United States, most high schoolers are ages 14–18, but some a
Education in the United States
…schools, or an approved home school program. Compulsory education is divided into three levels: elementary school, middle or junior high school, and high school. As of 2013, about 87% of school-age children attended state-funded public schools, about 10% attended tuition and foundation-funded private schools…
Hibbing High School in Hibbing, Minnesota
The first taxpayer-funded public school in the United States was in Dedham, Massachusetts.