(historical, Christianity) A rationalistic school of theologians founded by Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792-1860), which explained the origin of the Catholic Church as due to the gradual fusion of an antagonistic Judaistic and gentile party, the various stages of fusion being capable of being traced in the extant documents.

(archaic) A topic for scholastic disputation.

plural of school-point

A cooked meal provided by a school for its pupils at lunchtime.

plural of school dinner

A school for religious, and sometimes also secular, education for the poor, funded by charitable donations. / A school conducted by a missionary abroad.

(chiefly historical) A secondary school (especially in German-speaking countries) teaching a curriculum of "real-world" subjects (math, science, modern languages) rather than one heavily laden with literature, Latin, and Ancient Greek.

A school at which the teaching staff, and often the support staff, are nuns. / (India, proscribed) any English-medium school

A school for ballet.

(informal) A school or a division within a college or university teaching topics related to the practice of journalism.