school division

English

Noun

school division (plural school divisions)

1. (Canada, Philippines, Virginia, historically Ceylon) An administrative unit responsible for public primary and secondary schools in a particular locality; the area under the jurisdiction of such an administrative unit.

   Synonym: school district

   • 1851, E. Ryerson, Annual Report of the Normal, Model and Common Schools in Upper Canada for the Year 1850‎^[1], Toronto: Lovell and Gibson, page 204:

     The system of Free Schools may also be commended upon the ground of its tendency to promote unity and mutual affection among the inhabitants of each school division.

See also

• school board

References

• “school division” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.