parochial school
noun
: a private school maintained by a religious body usually for elementary and secondary instruction
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He was baptized, confirmed and attended the parochial school at St. Johns Lutheran Church, Chaska.
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Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Scores of people gathered Saturday morning at a parochial school in the Valley to memorialize an Arizona State University student who fell to her death two weeks earlier while hiking in Yosemite National Park.
—Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 27 July 2024
Private and parochial schools could not educate the workforce required by a sophisticated economy, so the government had to make primary education compulsory and free by the end of the nineteenth century.
—Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
The state’s parochial schools, in contrast, had mostly reopened after a few months.
—Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 13 Jan. 2025
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Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Scores of people gathered Saturday morning at a parochial school in the Valley to memorialize an Arizona State University student who fell to her death two weeks earlier while hiking in Yosemite National Park.
—Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 27 July 2024
Private and parochial schools could not educate the workforce required by a sophisticated economy, so the government had to make primary education compulsory and free by the end of the nineteenth century.
—Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
The state’s parochial schools, in contrast, had mostly reopened after a few months.
—Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 13 Jan. 2025
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“Parochial school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parochial%20school. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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