An Institution of learning of a lower grade, below a college or a university. A place of primary instruction. The term generally refers to the common or public schools, maintained at the expense of the public See American Asylum v. Phoenix Bank, 4 Conn. 177, 10 Am. Dec. 112; In re Sanders, 53 Kan. 191, 36 Pac 348, 23 L. B. A. 603; Com. v. Banks, 198 Pa. 397, 48 Atl 277. Common schools. Schools maintained at the public expense and administered by a bureau of the state, district, or municipal government, for the gratuitous education of the children of all citisens without distinction. Jenkins v. An-dover, 103 Mass. 98; People v. Board of Education, 13 Barb. (N. Y.) 410; Le Coulteulx v. Buffalo, 33 N. Y. 337; Roach v. Board of Directors, 7 Mo. App. 567. District school. A common or public school for the education at public expense of the children residing within a given district; a public school maintained by a “school district” See infra. High school. A school in which higher branches of learning are taught’than in the common schools. 128 Mass. 306. A school in which such instruction is given as will prepare the students to enter a college or university. Attorney General v. Butler, 123 Mass. 306; State v. School Diet, 31 Neb. 552, 48 N. W. 393; Whitlock v. State, 30 Neb. 815, 47 N. W. 284. Normal school. A training school for teachers; one in which instruction is given in the theory and practice of teaching; particularly, in the system of schools generally established throughout the United States, a school for the training and instruction of those who are already teachers in the public schools or those who desire and expect to become such. See Gordon v. Cornes, 47 N. Y. 616: Board of Regents v. Painter, 102 Mo. 464, 14 S. W. 038, 10 L. R. A. 493. Private school. One maintained by private individuals or corporations, not at public expense, and open only to pupils selected and admitted by the proprietors or governors, or to pupils of a certain class or possessing certain qualifications, (racial, religious, or otherwise,) and generally supported, in part at least, by tuition fees or charges. See Suigley v. State, 5 Ohio Cir. Ct. R. 638. Public schools. Schools established under the laws of the state, (and usually regulated in matters of detail by the local authorities,) in the various districts, counties, or towns, maintained at the public expense by taxation, and open without charge to the children of all the residents of the town or other district. Jenkins v. Andover, 103 Mass. 97; St. Joseph’s Church v. Assessors of Taxes, 12 R. I. 19, 34 Am. Rep. 597; Merrick v. Amherst, 12 Allen (Mass.) 506, A public school is one belonging to the public and established and conducted under public authority; not one owned and conducted by private parties, though it may be open to the public generally and though tuition may be free. Gerke v. Purcell, 25 Ohio St. 229. School board. A board of municipal officers charged with the administration of the affairs of the public schools. They are commonly organized under the general laws of the state, and fall within the class of quasi corporations, sometimes coterminous with a county or borough, but not necessarily so. The members of the school board are sometimes termed “school directors,” or the official style may be “the board of school directors.” The circuit of their territorial jurisdiction is called a “school district,” and each school district is usually a separate taxing district for school purposes. School directors. See SCHOOL BOARD. School district. A public and quasi municipal corporation, organized by legislative authority or direction, comprising a defined territory, for the erection, maintenance, government, and support of the public schools within its territory in accordance with and in subordination to the general school laws of the state, invested, for these purposes only, with powers of local self-government and generally of local taxation, and administered by a board of officers, usually elected by the voters of the district, who are variously styled “school directors,” or “trustees,” “commissioners,” or “supervisors” of schools. See Hamilton v. San TMego County, 108 Cal.
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