| school board |
a local lay board responsible for setting policy and budgets and providing general oversight for a school system. |
| schoolbook |
a book used as a basis for teaching in a school; textbook. |
| schoolboy |
a boy who attends school. |
| school bus |
a bus chartered or provided by a school system to take students to and from school and to various school-sponsored events. |
| schoolchild |
a child attending school. |
| school district |
a geographic area whose school or schools are administered by a single board of education. |
| schoolfellow |
a fellow pupil at one's school; schoolmate. |
| schoolgirl |
a girl who attends school. |
| schoolhouse |
a building used for a school. |
| schooling |
education or training, esp. formal instruction in a school. |
| schoolman |
(often cap.) a medieval philosopher or theologian teaching at a university by the scholastic system; scholastic. |
| schoolmarm |
(informal) formerly, a female schoolteacher, esp. a strict, humorless one. |
| schoolmaster |
a male schoolteacher or headmaster. |
| schoolmate |
a fellow pupil at school with whom one is acquainted or friendly. |
| schoolmistress |
a headmistress or female schoolteacher. |
| schoolroom |
a room in which classes are taught. |
| school system |
all the schools and their auxiliaries that are administered by a single board of education. |
| schoolteacher |
someone who instructs students in a school. |
| schoolwork |
study or practice assigned and done at school or as homework. |
| schoolyard |
the open area of ground near a school used as a playground, playing field or the like. |
| school year |
the annual period from the beginning of a school's classes, usu. in late summer, to the end of classes and examinations, usu. in late spring. |