day school
noun
: an elementary or secondary school held on weekdays
specifically
: a private school without boarding facilities
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Weiss moved to University Heights in 1997, and worked as the controller and later the CFO of the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland, the largest Jewish day school in Ohio.
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Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2026
Attendance was down dramatically on Wednesday, the day schools reopened: 41% of students were absent at Eagan and Eastview high schools, 33% at Apple Valley High School and 15% at Rosemount High School.
—Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 18 Dec. 2025
Community members gathered at the Radnor Memorial Library Thursday night to learn more about the future of Valley Forge Military Academy, a private boarding school and day school serving grades 7-12 in Wayne, Pennsylvania.
—Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
Shapiro, who is fifty-two, grew up in the Philadelphia suburb of Abington and attended a Jewish day school called Akiba Hebrew Academy.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
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Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2026
Attendance was down dramatically on Wednesday, the day schools reopened: 41% of students were absent at Eagan and Eastview high schools, 33% at Apple Valley High School and 15% at Rosemount High School.
—Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 18 Dec. 2025
Community members gathered at the Radnor Memorial Library Thursday night to learn more about the future of Valley Forge Military Academy, a private boarding school and day school serving grades 7-12 in Wayne, Pennsylvania.
—Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
Shapiro, who is fifty-two, grew up in the Philadelphia suburb of Abington and attended a Jewish day school called Akiba Hebrew Academy.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
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“Day school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/day%20school. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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