[f. BOARD sb. + SCHOOL.]
† 1. A boarding-school. Obs.
1740. J. Clarke, Educ. Youth (ed. 3), 204. Unless a Gentleman would submit, to have a Board-school in his House.
2. A school under the management of a School-board, as established by the Elementary Education Act of 1870. Also attrib., as in Board-school mistress, education, etc.
1873. Fawcett, in Hansard, 17 July. I would far sooner that the child were attending the Board school.
1882. Besant, All Sorts, i. (1884), 15. In Well-close Square, next to the Board Schools.
