Community School

Community school may refer to different types of school in various countries:

  • Community school (England and Wales), a type of state-funded school in which the local education authority employs the school's staff, is responsible for the school's admissions and owns the school's estate
  • Community school (Ireland), a type of secondary school funded directly by the state
  • Community school (United States), a type of publicly funded school that serves as both an educational institution and a centre of community life

Some individual schools are also called Community School:

  • Community Magnet Charter School, Los Angeles, California
  • Community School (Idaho), Sun Valley, Idaho

Famous quotes containing the words community and/or school:

    The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.
    William Howard Taft (1857–1930)