@thor Dutch: middelbare school. Basically the middle school. Since hogeschool is college level.

You can see what the Americans are capable of if they call a simple middelbare school already a 'high school'... :P

Fun detail. I've attended an American university for 4 years, and the first 1-2 years was filled with stuff that I'd already covered in my middelbare school... So an average American high school dropout is seriously very low in knowledge.