sectarian school

sectarian school
A school maintained by a church or religious body, usually giving sectarian instruction. A school which fosters and, in its instruction, to some extent, propagates the belief and doctrine of some particular religious sect. Hackett v Brooksville School Dist. 120 Ky 608, 87 SW 792. To constitute a sectarian school or sectarian institution which may not lawfully be maintained at public expense, it is not necessary to show that the school is wholly devoted to religious or sectarian instruction. Knowlton v Baurnhover, 22 Iowa 691, 166 NW 202, 5 ALR 841. See parochial school.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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