consolidated school

noun

: a public school formed by merging other schools

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web To complicate matters, the Dollarway School District, which sopped up all of the consolidated school districts from across the river over the years, itself failed and was combined with the Pine Bluff School District. —

Arkansas Online, 29 Jan. 2023 LaCrosse closed as a school at the end of the 2021-22 school year, but the consolidated school, Tri-Township, still plays its home games in the gym, which was built in 1950 and has a unique old-school atmosphere. —

The Indianapolis Star, 27 Jan. 2023 Much of the uncertainty stems from legal ambiguity under Act 46, a Vermont law passed in 2015 that controversially consolidated school districts to improve efficiencies and education outcomes. —

Chelsea Sheasley, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Feb. 2022 The town’s school is closed, and the few school-age kids who remain take a long bus ride to a consolidated school elsewhere. —

Ian Frazier, The New York Review of Books, 19 Nov. 2020 The town’s school is closed, and the few school-age kids who remain take a long bus ride to a consolidated school elsewhere. —

Ian Frazier, The New York Review of Books, 19 Nov. 2020 See More

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Word History

First Known Use

1869, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of consolidated school was in 1869

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