Room Class Secondary Education
caricature secondary education
Secondary education is the stage of education after primary school. Secondary education is usually the final stage of compulsory education. However, in some countries secondary education includes a period of compulsory and non-compulsory education period. The next stage of education is usually college. Secondary education is characterized by the transition from compulsory general, comprehensive primary to tertiary minors optional, selective, post-secondary, or "higher" education (eg college, vocational school) for adults. Depending on the system, schools of that period or part thereof as may be called secondary schools, colleges, gymnasiums, lyceums, middle schools, universities, vocational schools and high schools, and the exact meaning of any of these varies between systems. 