parochial school
noun
: a private school maintained by a religious body usually for elementary and secondary instruction
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Students who attend a public, private, or parochial school as well as those who are homeschooled are eligible to enter.
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Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 6 Oct. 2024
The amendment died largely due to opposition from cotton mill owners, but oddly enough also because of opposition from the Catholic Church, which feared that a child labor amendment would lead to federal regulation of parochial schools.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 29 July 2024
Scores of people gathered at a parochial school in the Valley to memorialize an ASU student who fell to her death two weeks earlier while hiking in Yosemite National Park.
—Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 27 July 2024
Other former parochial schools — St. Mary Star of the Sea in Federal Hill is now the Saint Ignatius Loyola Academy and the old Holy Rosary School in Canton is the Christo Rey Jesuit High School.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2024
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Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 6 Oct. 2024
The amendment died largely due to opposition from cotton mill owners, but oddly enough also because of opposition from the Catholic Church, which feared that a child labor amendment would lead to federal regulation of parochial schools.
—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 29 July 2024
Scores of people gathered at a parochial school in the Valley to memorialize an ASU student who fell to her death two weeks earlier while hiking in Yosemite National Park.
—Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 27 July 2024
Other former parochial schools — St. Mary Star of the Sea in Federal Hill is now the Saint Ignatius Loyola Academy and the old Holy Rosary School in Canton is the Christo Rey Jesuit High School.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2024
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“Parochial school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parochial%20school. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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