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School. See EDUCATION; PUBLIC SCHOOLS; RE-FORMATORY SCHOOLS; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Education.'

An institution of learning and education, esp. for children, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1346.

School Attendance Committee, a committee appointed annually (in 'school districts' not within the jurisdiction of a 'school board') for the purpose of enforcing the Elementary Education Act, 1876, by proceeding against parents who neglected to send their children to a public elementary school. The duties of this Committee were transferred to the local education authorities by the Education Act, 1902. This Act was repealed by the Education Act, 1921, but the responsibilities of the local education authorities in this respect were confirmed (s. 43).

School Board, a body corporate of persons elected triennially, for the purpose of managing 'public elementary schools' within their respective districts [(English) Elementary Education Acts, 1870 and 1873]. School Boards were abolished by the (English) Education Act, 1902, their powers and duties being transferred to the local education authorities; this provision has been re-enacted by the Education Act, 1921.

School, Certified Efficient. By s. 170 (2) of the Act of 1921, a 'certified efficient school' means a public elementary school, a school certified by the Board of Education as suitable for blind, deaf, defective or epileptic children, a certified workhouse school, a Scottish public or State-aided elementary school, a national school in (Northern) Ireland, and any elementary school which is not conducted for private profit and is open to inspection and requires the like attendance from scholars as a public elementary school, and keeps certain registers of attendances and is certified by the Board of Education as efficient.

School, District, a municipal borough; a parish; the metropolis, Elementary Education Act, 1870, s. 4 and Sch. I. (repealed). School Districts were abolished by the Act of 1902, the areas dealt with by the local education authorities being substituted. See now Part I. of the Act of 1921.

School, Elementary. By s. 170 (1) a school or department of a school at which elementary education is the principal part of the education given, and does not include any school or department of a school at which the ordinary payment from each scholar exceed ninepence per week, or any evening school under the Board of Education, or courses of advanced instruction under the Act, or any continuation school.

The (English) Education Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 41), provides that the compulsory school age be raised to fifteen; enables local educational authorities to make grants to non-provided schools in certain cases; and makes provision with respect to religious instruction in non-provided schools, when the parents desire the children to receive such religious instruction.

Schools of Anatomy, regulated by 2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 75, and 34 Vict. c. 16.

The local education authority will be liable for injury to a scholar caused by negigence, Ching v. Surrey County Council, (1910) 1 KB 736'defective playground; Morris v. Carnarvon County Council, (1910) 1 KB 840--dangerous premises. Consult Maclean on Schools