correspondence school

American  

noun

1. a school operating on a system in which study materials and tests are mailed to the students, who in turn mail their work back to the school for grading.

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correspondence school British  

noun

1. an educational institution that offers tuition ( correspondence courses ) by post

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Etymology

Origin of correspondence school

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

Zeman ruled that the laws allowing for correspondence school allotments “were drafted with the express purpose of allowing purchases of private educational services with the public correspondence student allotments.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2024

Meuser graduated from Oak Brook College of Law, an unaccredited Christian correspondence school that has an impressive bar exam passage rate.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2022

“Bedknobs and Broomsticks” is no more than passable family entertainment, but Lansbury acquits herself as an amateur witch who’s learning her craft via correspondence school.

From New York Times • Oct. 11, 2022

Instead, Emerson offered distance courses through the University of Nebraska High School, a onetime correspondence school.

From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2021

I was concentrating on one of the maps the correspondence school had sent her for a course in map reading and mapmaking.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George