sekolah menengah umum atas

Compound of sekolah menengah (“high school (US), secondary school (UK)”) +‎ umum (“general”) +‎ atas (“upper”), from

• Calque of Dutch algemene middelbare school of algemene (“common, general”) +‎ middelbare (“secondary”) +‎ school.
• Compare to Chinese 普通高中.

sekolah menengah umum atas

1. (education, historical) senior high school (US), upper secondary school (UK), abbreviated SMU.

The terms for general upper secondary education are sekolah menengah tinggi (1942-1946), sekolah menengah umum atas (1946-1950), sekolah lanjutan tingkat atas (1963-1967), sekolah menengah umum (1994-2004), and sekolah menengah atas (1950-1961, 1968-1993, 2004-now).

• sekolah lanjutan tingkat atas (dated)
• sekolah menengah tinggi (dated)
• sekolah menengah atas
• sekolah menengah umum (dated)