The term sister school (or brother school) has several meanings:
- a definite financial commerce between two colleges or universities
- two schools that have a strong historical connection
- two schools which have social activities involving students from both schools
- two schools under the same management
- two schools built using the same floor plan/layout
- two schools in different nations that have established a collaborative international partnership.
The schools involved are usually single-sex schools, one with female students and the other with male students.
Famous quotes containing the words sister and/or school:
“Let me see, what am I to buy for our sheep-shearing feast? Three pound of sugar, five pound of currants, ricewhat will this sister of mine do with rice? But my father hath made her mistress of the feast, and she lays it on.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)