boarding school

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The Ndholo Kusumo boarding school reportedly had a permit since 2021, and was home to at least 252 students.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

Our protagonist comes from a nondescript family, attends a minor boarding school, falls in love with Oxford, enlists in the British army and is transformed forever by a trip to North Africa.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

She attended Choate Rosemary Hall, an exclusive boarding school in Wallingford, Connecticut, and went to Barnard College in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

"It's like a state-sponsored boarding school where they systematically foster football players."

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

He has found a new job, not in Paris or the Netherlands, not in art or preaching, but in teaching, at a boys’ boarding school run by a minister on the eastern coast of England.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman