graded school

In a graded school, says his teacher mother, he might never have caught up.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this town, at the Corners, for several years they tried to get a graded school, but the men voted it down.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Another requirement for a good school is that it be well organized as a graded school.

From Organizing and Building Up the Sunday School Modern Sunday School Manuals by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

He came to River Falls in 1858 and taught the first graded school in the village.

From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by William Henry Carman Folsom

Some regard this as an essential, and consider no Sunday school properly a graded school without it.

From Seven Graded Sunday Schools A Series of Practical Papers by Various