day school
noun
: an elementary or secondary school held on weekdays
specifically
: a private school without boarding facilities
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Independence residents recently voted to maintain a four-day school week model, which Herl initiated and navigated in the final years of his tenure.
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Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 28 Jan. 2026
The third-grade children were traveling back to Yeshivat Noam Jewish day school in Paramus after a class trip to the Liberty Science Center when a large rock smashed through the bus window, the school previously told Fox News Digital.
—Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 25 Jan. 2026
The academy was both day school and boarding school where boys from all over the country – and world – came to study, learn and maybe even become sailors.
—Roger Simmons, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2026
Weiss attended a Jewish day school—which one of her three sisters now heads—and the family spent a couple of summers in Jerusalem, where her parents learned Hebrew.
—Clare Malone, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
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Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 28 Jan. 2026
The third-grade children were traveling back to Yeshivat Noam Jewish day school in Paramus after a class trip to the Liberty Science Center when a large rock smashed through the bus window, the school previously told Fox News Digital.
—Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 25 Jan. 2026
The academy was both day school and boarding school where boys from all over the country – and world – came to study, learn and maybe even become sailors.
—Roger Simmons, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2026
Weiss attended a Jewish day school—which one of her three sisters now heads—and the family spent a couple of summers in Jerusalem, where her parents learned Hebrew.
—Clare Malone, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
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“Day school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/day%20school. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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