school division
noun1
Canada, Philippines, Virginia An administrative unit responsible for public primary and secondary schools in a particular locality; the area under the jurisdiction of such an administrative unit.
Historically Ceylon
- 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.1851, E. Ryerson, Annual Report of the Normal, Model and Common Schools in Upper Canada for the Year 1850, Toronto: Lovell and Gibson, page 204:
- Related terms
- school board