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Maybe the "Graduated High School" choice would be the closest for that.

• corin_ 16y ago
  But does "Graduated High School" imply "finished the standard education expected" (equivilent to GCSEs in the UK) or "finished the education required to move straight on to university" (equivilent to A Levels in the UK). If the latter, maybe "Dropped out of High School" is a better choice.
  • stan_rogers 16y ago
    You're not alone there. In Ontario, Canada, we used to have a thirteenth grade as University prep, but Grade XII got you a high school diploma if you weren't Uni bound. (Grade XII would get you into a college of applied arts and technology or -- if anyone here is old enogh to remember those days -- straight into the workforce.) In Quebec, there is CEGEP (Collège d'enseignement général et professionnel) between high school and University, and it functions both as a trade school and as the equivalent of an A-level, depending on which track you choose to take. I'd say that if you were handed a diploma after completing elementary education but before graduating University, it's safe to say you graduated high school in your context.
  • jey 16y ago
    I interpret "Graduated High School" as "completed standard education" (and I'm American).
  • petercooper 16y ago
    I chose "graduated high school" as I left secondary school (increasingly being called "high school" in the UK, I notice) at 16 as that was the end of my mandatory education and no British person in their right mind would say I "dropped out of high school" since leaving at 16 is quite normal (even if only to go to "college" to do A levels which is not "high school").
  • gaoshan 16y ago
    It definitely implies the former.