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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
summer school
noun
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▪ And then he was leaving for the Devon summer school.
▪ Booming attendances during the summer school holidays brought in an extra £500,000 at the turnstiles.
▪ Families travel to Los Angeles for intensive summer school sessions.
▪ Harvard summer school would have been a tantalizing experience for her.
▪ The change will add an estimated 33,000 new students to the summer school rosters, which last year reached about 200,000.
▪ We then went to a summer school in general relativity at Cornell University in upstate New York.
Wiktionary
summer school

n. Any of various academic sessions held in the summer at schools or universities when the usual students are away; either for supplementary or remedial study or as part of distance learning.

WordNet
summer school

n. an academic session during the summer; usually for remedial or supplementary study

Wikipedia
Summer School (1987 film)

Summer School is a 1987 comedy film directed by Carl Reiner. It stars Mark Harmon as a high school gym teacher who is forced to teach a remedial English class during the summer. It co-stars Kirstie Alley and Courtney Thorne-Smith. The original music score was composed by Danny Elfman.

Summer school

Summer school (or summer university) is a school, or a program generally sponsored by a school or a school district, or provided by a private company, that provides lessons and activities during the summer vacation. Participation in summer schools has been shown to have substantial beneficial effects on educational progress.

Summer School (2006 film)

Summer School is an independent horror film created by Minnesota-based production company Random Creatureface Films. Summer School, having spent the first two years after its release showing at regional and national film festivals, is currently only available on the official website, but distributor Osiris Entertainment has scheduled a worldwide release in stores and several rental chains starting in April 2009.

Usage examples of "summer school".

The highlight of the set was a routine about taking a summer school class in philosophy, one of his earliest bits to weave in a spiritual message.

I had signed up for summer school both to add to my education (since I had given up the idea of college) and to fill that aching emptiness caused by Father and Tom (and Mr Smith) being away at war.

Following summer school I got my first taste of teaching by assisting at an art camp for gifted students at Bucknell University.

She therefore persuaded her parents to allow her to attend Harvard Summer School and sublet a flat in North - Cambridge.

Instead, I took an extra class each semester and went to summer school for two years, in the time when I would have been sweating under the August sun, hitting the tackling dummies, if things had happened differently.