How to Use parochial school in a Sentence

parochial school

noun
  • The parochial school was in session at the time.
    — Joe Holden, CBS News, 9 June 2026
  • When Mike was 15, five kids from a parochial school jumped him.
    — Los Angeles Magazine, 19 Dec. 2017
  • My daughter and son-in-law send their 6-year-old to a parochial school.
    — Philip Galanes, New York Times, 28 June 2018
  • The Catholic Church runs the world's largest parochial school system.
    — Vivian Jones, The Tennessean, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Putting his children through parochial school was a financial strain.
    — Anat Rubin, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Granted, a lot of the people from the white parts of town went to Catholic parochial schools.
    — Dianna Douglas, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Our parochial school teachers put together a program of a walk-in.
    — Fox News, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The state’s parochial schools, in contrast, had mostly reopened after a few months.
    — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Vouchers for private schools would let parents place their children in the city’s parochial schools.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 June 2018
  • Ebersole pushed for a bill to extend it to private and parochial schools and child-care homes and centers.
    — Donna St. George, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Those with means can afford private schools, including parochial schools.
    — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2017
  • The attorney said Yanez continues to teach at the parochial school.
    — Steve Karnowski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The Klan charged that the pope was using parochial schools in his plot to take over America.
    — Longreads, 12 July 2018
  • But some families who can afford it do end up sending their children to private or parochial schools.
    — Boston.com Real Estate, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The roughly one-square-mile neighborhood has a variety of public and parochial schools.
    — Julie Lasky, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Both programs are open to students from public, charter and parochial schools, as well as homeschoolers.
    — cleveland, 26 Sep. 2019
  • This is not the first attempt at creating a hockey academy at a local parochial school.
    — Jim Clark, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Jan. 2020
  • This program enabled low-income students to attend private or parochial schools.
    — Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2026
  • But many private and parochial schools did close, and the kids who attended those schools went to the parade instead, reports said.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Independence Local Schools serves as the fiscal agent for the parochial school.
    — Chris M. Worrell, cleveland, 29 July 2021
  • James' Baptist parents converted him to Catholicism and sent him to parochial schools.
    — Bill Turque, kansascity, 23 Mar. 2018
  • San Francisco was also home to what was once a large and influential parochial school system.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2022
  • Before schools closed, only two of Daniels’ schools had e-learning plans — a parochial school and a small elementary school.
    — Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Almost nothing was mentioned about Sanders Street and the parochial school children seen playing on the street in a brief glimpse.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Four eighth graders, including the starting point guard, are part of a young team for the small parochial school on Jewel Lake Road.
    — Beth Bragg, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Mar. 2021
  • The thinking was my mom and my uncle would get a better education in parochial schools, and the schools seemed less racist — albeit only slightly.
    — Elizabeth Wellington, Philly.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Schools Philadelphia public and parochial schools are on a two-hour delay, as are scores of other districts outside the city.
    — Joseph A. Gambardello, Philly.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Protestants welcomed the city’s first Catholic church, for example, and often sent their children to the Catholic parochial schools.
    — Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 8 June 2026
  • The Abington and Jenkintown school districts and all private and parochial schools were closed Tuesday.
    — arkansasonline.com, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The private/parochial school coach of the year is Julia Houser of Whitesburg Christian.
    — al, 24 May 2022

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