• Noun: a large group of fish; example: "a school of small glittering fish swam by"
• Noun: an educational institution; example: "the school was founded in 1900"
• Noun: a building where young people receive education; examples: "the school was built in 1932", "he walked to school every morning"
• Noun: the process of being formally educated at a school; example: "what will you do when you finish school?"
• Noun: an educational institution's faculty and students; examples: "the school keeps parents informed", "the whole school turned out for the game"
• Noun: the period of instruction in a school; the time period when schools is in session; examples: "stay after school", "he didn't miss a single day of school", "when the school day was done we would walk home together"
• Noun: a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers; example: "the Venetian school of painting"
• Verb: educate in or as if in a school; example: "The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions"
• Verb: train to be discriminative in taste or judgment; examples: "Cultivate your musical taste", "Train your tastebuds", "She is well schooled in poetry"
• Verb: swim in or form a large group of fish; example: "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait"
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.