A school is a place where children are educated. You usually refer to this place as school when you are talking about the time that children spend there and the activities that they do there.

A school is the pupils or staff at a school.

A privately-run place where a particular skill or subject is taught can be referred to as a school .

A university, college, or university department specializing in a particular type of subject can be referred to as a school .

School is used to refer to university or college.

A particular school of writers, artists, or thinkers is a group of them whose work, opinions, or theories are similar.

A school of fish or dolphins is a large group of them moving through water together.

If you school someone in something, you train or educate them to have a certain skill, type of behaviour, or way of thinking.

To school a child means to educate him or her.

If you school a horse, you train it so that it can be ridden in races or competitions.

If you approve of someone because they have good qualities that used to be more common in the past, you can describe them as one of the old school .