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 which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.”
    —Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

    “East, west, north, south, or like a school broke up,
    Each hurries toward his home and sporting-place.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)