day school
noun
: an elementary or secondary school held on weekdays
specifically
: a private school without boarding facilities
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The yeshivas represent a small number of the many Jewish day schools in New York otherwise providing a quality education.
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Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2025
Open house was sparsely attended and the next day school leaders couldn’t figure out why.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
The girls, ages 13 to 17, were tossed together because a juvenile-court judge sentenced them to a strict day school called Carroll Academy.
—John Branch, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
His synagogue, which meets at the Maimonides School—a Modern Orthodox day school—was one of seven Orthodox shuls that were a part of the Oct. 6 siyum.
—Emily Goldberg, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2024
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Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2025
Open house was sparsely attended and the next day school leaders couldn’t figure out why.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
The girls, ages 13 to 17, were tossed together because a juvenile-court judge sentenced them to a strict day school called Carroll Academy.
—John Branch, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
His synagogue, which meets at the Maimonides School—a Modern Orthodox day school—was one of seven Orthodox shuls that were a part of the Oct. 6 siyum.
—Emily Goldberg, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Day school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/day%20school. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.
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