continuation school

noun

a school providing extension courses for people who have left school in the elementary grades to go to work.

Origin of continuation school

First recorded in 1885–90

The library will thus become the center of intellectual activities of the community, a continuation school, a local university.
Papers and Proceedings of the Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the American Library Association Held at Ottawa, Canada June 26-July 2, 1912 | Various
In certain sections, Nassau and Hanover for example, state aid came early to the continuation school.
The Condition and Tendencies of Technical Education in Germany | Arthur Henry Chamberlain
The Berlin Handwerker Verein is a type of continuation school, sustained not by the state but by an association.
The Condition and Tendencies of Technical Education in Germany | Arthur Henry Chamberlain
Girls spending their days in the factory and shop were in need of a refining influence, and this the continuation school afforded.
The Condition and Tendencies of Technical Education in Germany | Arthur Henry Chamberlain
Children who have not made satisfactory progress in the Volksschule must, perforce, attend the continuation school for two years.
The Condition and Tendencies of Technical Education in Germany | Arthur Henry Chamberlain

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