A school for religious, and sometimes also secular, education for the poor, funded by charitable donations. / A school conducted by a missionary abroad.

A school at which the teaching staff, and often the support staff, are nuns. / (India, proscribed) any English-medium school

A meeting for religious education, like a Sunday school, but held on the Sabbath day.

A school for ballet.

(historical) A small sum of money taken to school by a child as payment for the teaching they receive.

(historical, Christianity) A rationalistic school of theologians founded by Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792-1860), which explained the origin of the Catholic Church as due to the gradual fusion of an antagonistic Judaistic and gentile party, the various stages of fusion being capable of being traced in the extant documents.

(archaic) A topic for scholastic disputation.

plural of school-point

(chiefly historical) A secondary school (especially in German-speaking countries) teaching a curriculum of "real-world" subjects (math, science, modern languages) rather than one heavily laden with literature, Latin, and Ancient Greek.

(informal) A school or a division within a college or university teaching topics related to the practice of journalism.