Definition of parochial school
: a private school maintained by a religious body usually for elementary and secondary instruction
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The thinking was my mom and my uncle would get a better education in parochial schools, and the schools seemed less racist — albeit only slightly.
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The roughly one-square-mile neighborhood has a variety of public and parochial schools.
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Around 500,000 of the country's 56 million schoolchildren use voucher-type programs to attend private or parochial schools.
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James' Baptist parents converted him to Catholicism and sent him to parochial schools.
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Schools Philadelphia public and parochial schools are on a two-hour delay, as are scores of other districts outside the city.
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The Elks provide 3,000 dictionaries each year to all third-graders in public, private and parochial schools in Glendale, Montrose and La Crescenta.
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Our parochial school teachers put together a program of a walk-in.
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The analysts compared academic data on those who did and did not opt for parochial school and found that voucher users showed no significant reading or math gains over those who remained in public school.
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First Known Use of parochial school
1755
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Definition of parochial school for English Language Learners
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: a private school that is run by a church parish
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Definition of parochial school for Students
: a private school that is run by a religious body
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