school division

English

Noun

school division (plural school divisions)

  1. (Canada, Philippines, Virginia, historically Ceylon) An administrative unit responsible for public primary and secondary schools in a particular locality; the area under the jurisdiction of such an administrative unit.
    Synonym: school district
    • 1851, E. Ryerson, Annual Report of the Normal, Model and Common Schools in Upper Canada for the Year 1850‎, Toronto: Lovell and Gibson, page 204:
      The system of Free Schools may also be commended upon the ground of its tendency to promote unity and mutual affection among the inhabitants of each school division.

See also

References
  • “school division” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
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