ragged school

noun

1. (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children

Example Sentences

It's sorely tempting to reduce California's ragged school reopening effort to a couple of central forces.

From Salon

In Hackney, London – where I live – they gave several performances, inspiring a local ragged school to set up the UK’s first gospel choir.

From The Guardian

She founded a ragged school, bringing education to poor children and young offenders in Bristol.

From BBC

The records of The Ragged School Museum, in London, contain photographs of children wearing very individual uniforms at Hamlet of Radcliff School, a charity school founded in 1910.

From BBC

The museum is housed in three huge canalside buildings, which once formed the largest ragged school in run by Dr Thomas Barnardo.

From The Guardian