algemene middelbare school

File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Portret van de leerlingen van de Algemene Middelbare School afdeling B te Yogyakarta ter gelegenheid van het vertrek van G.A.J. Hazeu terug naar Nederland 1920 TMnr 60025982.jpg to mark the departure of G.A.J. Hazeu back to the Netherlands in 1920]]

Algemene middelbare school or AMS (Dutch, "general secondary school") was during part of the twentieth century a level of education in the Netherlands (and also the Dutch East Indies{{cite book |title=Upuleru |last=Siwabessy |first=G.A. |author-link=G.A. Siwabessy |year=1979 |publisher=PT Gunung Agung |location=Jakarta |language=id}}{{cite web |url=http://pakguruonline.pendidikan.net/sjh_pdd_sumbar_bab3a.html |title=Pendidikan Pemerintah Hindia Belanda |year=2010 |publisher=PakGuru Online |access-date=19 August 2012}} and Suriname), comparable with the high school level in the US education system. Its successors were the mavo and vbo, now both replaced by vmbo.