faith-based school

Parochial learning institution

A faith-based school is an educational institution affiliated with a religious tradition, where instruction may include religious teachings alongside standard academics.

The term encompasses Catholic schools, Jewish day schools, Islamic academies, and similar institutions: She enrolled her children in a faith-based school.

Faith-based schools vary widely in how central religion is to daily life—some emphasize doctrine and worship, others maintain only loose religious identity.

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private · chapel · prayer · diocese · uniform · dress code · tuition · mission · congregation · church community · Sunday · Bible · clergy · parish · devotion · moral values · values · ministry

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religious affiliation

faith-based schoolsecular school

Non-denominational educational institution

public school · secular education · state school · public education · community school

worldview foundation

faith-based schoolsecular school

Non-denominational educational institution

Montessori school · progressive school

Family

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