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A state school, public school, or government school is a primary or secondary school that educates all students without charge. Such schools are funded in whole or in part by taxation and operated by the government of the state.
With 5,498 students as of the 2021–22 school year, Reading Senior High School in Reading, Pennsylvania, is the largest state school in Pennsylvania and one of the largest state schools in the United States.
Old Scona High School in Edmonton, Alberta
A secondary school in Bragado, Argentina
Stone plaque marking the site of the first public school in the United States, located in Dedham, Massachusetts
During the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines (1521–1898), the different cultures of the archipelago experienced a gradual unification from a variety of native Asian and Islamic customs and traditions, including animist religious practices, to what is known today as Filipino culture, a unique hybrid of Southeast Asian and Western culture, namely Spanish, including the Spanish language and the Catholic faith.
Library of the University of Santo Tomás in Manila, 1887. Created at the request of Archbishop Miguel de Benavides, O.P. of Manila in 1610, it is the oldest existing university in Asia. The library is also the oldest in the continent. It even had its own printing press which was brought from Europe.
Cover of Doctrina Christiana
Fountain of Wisdom at the University of Santo Tomás
The Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas, established by the Dominican missionaries in 1611 and raised to the rank of a university in 1645 by Pope Innocent X through the petition of Philip IV of Spain, is currently the educational institution with the oldest extant University charter in Asia.