The phrase "as a big school" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing or describing the characteristics of a large educational institution.
Example: "The new policies were implemented as a big school, ensuring that all students received equal opportunities for success."
Alternatives: "like a large school" or "as a large institution".
Compare an urban campus such as Boston University to a quieter campus such as Boston College, and a big school to a small school.
However, I think this only works because Gateway is a big school, almost as large as some secondaries, and therefore has scope within its larger budget.
Even a big school such as this behaves as if it were one organism, with a roughly spherical shape that is flattened when the school comes into shallow waters or approaches the surface.
George: It was a big school as well, a fucking big school, so… Yeah.
Small schools have been looked on as poor relations because you need a big school to support libraries and computer rooms, lots of specialist courses, and so on.
The Board of Education tore it down & wanted to demolish Mike's house as well, in order to build a bigger school, but he took them to court & won.
That's all a long way off for little Sophie Hawkins, who doesn't seem too concerned about which school she goes to – as long as it's "big school", there's a uniform and she can play with her friend.
As a senior at Edmond Memorial High in 1981, Self was selected as Oklahoma's big school player of the year.
"The school district – and I'm saying this as a big fan of the school district, as a parent in the school district – in some ways is a little bit like an alcoholic who hasn't bottomed out yet," Barr said.
Instead of depicting the process of starting big school as an exciting experience many children are offered transitional counselling for what was for centuries regarded as normal dimension of life.
