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The names of languages have capital letters whether used as school subjects or not. When writing specifically about a school subject I personally would capitalize it: "I failed O level Biology, but I passed Chemistry with a grade 1".
Names of schools are not put in quotation marks in English. Also, if it necessary to describe what a name refers to, the description comes after the name. For example: 1. The study was conducted at Milford High School. (Milford High School is the name of the school. Its name includes its description, so no other description is needed.
I went to graduate school at Harvard University. Oxford University is the oldest university in Britain. He will start teaching at Boston University next year. On the other hand, if a school is "University of [Place]", you use the artice "the": The University of Michigan has a famous football team. He studied medicine at the Univeristy of Bologna.
Many decades ago I attended a school (with grades K-8) where pupils called their teachers by their first names. (The school had been founded by a labor movement much earlier. It kept many of its traditions despite having become a public (BE state) school, with the standard curriculum, years before I attended it.)
Eighth Grade (These are collectively called: Grade School or Grammar School.) In some areas it is broken down into Middle School and Junior High School. As I know it, Middle School is 1st - 6th grades and Junior High (as it is called) is 7th and 8th. This may be different in certain areas of the country and/or certain school districts.
My favourite subjects at school were history and geography. And we read at the British Council´s website that: ´´We use capital letters when we talk about languages as school subjects – but other subjects don’t have a capital letter´´ She’s got exams in English, French, history and geography this year.
Hogwarts school in the Harry Potter series has many aspects of a 'public school', including 'houses', uniforms, onsite accommodation (boarding) and long historical tradition. In an ordinary British school, more modern than Hogwarts, students would be called by their first names.
"All-girl school" also gets some hits on Google, even for official names of schools. I personally find "all-girls school" to be the only one which sounds correct. There is no 'measure word' here used in conjunction with a number like in "100-metre race" or "12-year-old child", therefore the singular is not necessary.
There are more exceptions with proper names, however: Jesus' time, Moses' law. Multisyllabic names and particularly those of biblical and classical origin usually take only the apostrophe: Odysseus' journey, Aristophanes' plays. Single-syllable names, however, even the classical ones, more often have 's: Zeus's anger. Gaer
The teachers of my child in public school use different titles before names, such as Mr. Mvovi, Ms. Castellucci, M. Bertrand, Mme Fuamba. I am confused what is the meaning of M.? Male or female? What is the difference between Mme and Ms.? Thanks.