school district

noun

: a unit for administration of a public-school system often comprising several towns within a state

Examples of school district in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web That law is now being challenged in court by a lawsuit filed Tuesday by Chino Valley Unified School District and several parents in the school district. Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 17 July 2024 Those displaced were taken to the local FEMA shelter near the school district. Remington Miller, arkansasonline.com, 17 July 2024 Elon Musk is moving the headquarters of social media platform X and rocket ship maker SpaceX from California to Texas, blaming a new law that bars school districts in the state from requiring that parents be notified of changes in their child’s gender identification. Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 16 July 2024 The mishap happened after Oakland’s school district had stopped offering campuses as testing locations during the COVID-19 pandemic and never resumed the practice. Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 16 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for school district 

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Word History

First Known Use

1809, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of school district was in 1809

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“School district.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/school%20district. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.

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