(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.

A school employing the techniques of Waldorf education.

Synonym of boarding school / Synonym of reform school

(UK, education) A school accepting pupils from age 4 to 12.

(UK) A primary school, generally for children aged between four and seven.

(UK, education) In the three-tier education system, a school for children until thee age of eight or nine. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see first, school.