residential school

American  

[rez-i-den-shuhl skool, rez-i-den-shuhl skool] / ˌrɛz ɪˈdɛn ʃəl ˌskul, ˈrɛz ɪˌdɛn ʃəl ˈskul /

noun

1. a boarding school, especially one for delinquent or disabled children or youth.

   They recommended placing our daughter in a residential school for troubled teens.

2. (formerly) one of a network of boarding schools in Canada for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis students, typically founded and operated by a church or religious order and eventually receiving partial or full funding by the federal government.

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residential school British  

noun

1. (in Canada) a boarding school maintained by the Canadian government for Indian and Inuit children from sparsely populated settlements

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Etymology

Origin of residential school

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

When news broke three years ago about the discovery of more than 200 potential unmarked graves on the site of a former residential school for Indigenous children in British Columbia, Emily Kassie immediately felt “gut-pulled” to the story, which rippled through an entire network of Catholic-run institutions across North America.

From Los Angeles Times

Perhaps the most important difference, though, is the training center and the adjoining Right to Dream Academy and residential school, which will have classrooms, dining facilities and living quarters for up to 100 youth players between the ages of 13 and 18.

From Los Angeles Times

Egyptian businessman and politician Mohamed Mansour brings not just deep pockets, but also ownership of the “Right to Dream Academy”, a wildly successful residential school and soccer training program with facilities in Egypt, Ghana and Denmark.

From Los Angeles Times

For much of her childhood, Alison lived at a residential school for children with complex physical disabilities.

From BBC

“Sugarcane” tells a story — many stories — happening everywhere in Canada, about what is being done, and still going unsaid, regarding the trauma inflicted on Indigenous people by the white-settled country’s residential school system.

From Los Angeles Times