Key:school:type
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| Description |
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| The type of school. |
| Group: education |
| Used on these elements |
| Requires |
| Status: in use |
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Use this tag with amenity=school to document the type of a school. Values may be combined by semicolons.
Note, this is not for showing whether a school is a primary school, secondary school, high school etc., for that use some combination of school=*, isced:level=*, grades=*, min_age=* and max_age=*.
United Kingdom
The most common values in the UK are:
=academyfor
academies.=alternative_provisionfor alternative provision schools.=communityfor
community schools.=foundationfor
foundation schools.=freefor
free schools.=independentfor
independent schools, also known as private schools.=specialfor
special schools.=studio_schoolfor
studio school.=university_technical_collegefor
University Technical College (UTC).=voluntary_aidedfor
voluntary aided schools.=voluntary_controlledfor
voluntary controlled schools.
