(in Canada) a school for a large religious minority financed by its rates and administered by its own school board but under the authority of the provincial department of education
Examples of 'separate school' in a sentence
separate school
One is an elementary separate school and the other is a secondary public school.
Globe and Mail (2003)
It would not be inconsistent to support separate schools in one place and not the other.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Work on one hundred separate schools and hospitals has been delayed - a combined value of 2.5 billion - because of funding problems.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
What this means is that most parents want more selection, either in mixed schools or in separate schools.