District school

a public school for the children within a school district.

See also: District

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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"I suppose I'll just have to drop out next year," she thought drearily, "and teach a district school again until I earn enough to finish my course.
She had never had any education other than that of the neighborhood district school, for her desires and ambitions had all pointed to the management of the house, the farm, and the dairy.
Holgrave, as he told Phoebe somewhat proudly, could not boast of his origin, unless as being exceedingly humble, nor of his education, except that it had been the scantiest possible, and obtained by a few winter-months' attendance at a district school. Left early to his own guidance, he had begun to be self-dependent while yet a boy; and it was a condition aptly suited to his natural force of will.
It made no difference to Martin that the daily walk to and from the district school was long, and left no spare time; it made no difference that the long hours at his lessons left the boy longing for play--always there was the herd, twice a day, cows and cows without end.
Tell Josiah Bounderby of Coketown, of your district schools and your model schools, and your training schools, and your whole kettle-of-fish of schools; and Josiah Bounderby of Coketown, tells you plainly, all right, all correct - he hadn't such advantages - but let us have hard-headed, solid-fisted people - the education that made him won't do for everybody, he knows well - such and such his education was, however, and you may force him to swallow boiling fat, but you shall never force him to suppress the facts of his life.'
Seaman, a former teacher and administrator with a child attending a district school, worked as deputy of schools in Chicago Public Schools.
Title XLVIII, Chapter 1003 of the state law has been amended to read: "Each district school board shall adopt rules to require, in all of the schools of the district and in each building used by the district school board, the display of the [Florida state] motto, 'In God We Trust'...
The Peel District School Board in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, said it began to investigate the instructor after a concerned user took to Twitter on Saturday and shared a screengrab of the photo.
The data span 14 years, from 1996-97 to 2009-10, and include students in grades 3-5 attending a district school located in the same community school district (a sub-unit of a district) where a charter school has at least one overlapping grade.
Eugene District School Choice Subcommittee - 4:30 p.m., District Education Center, 200 N.
Higham Lane School's Year 10 football squad celebrate their Nuneaton & District School FA Cup Final |triumph.

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