charter school

1. 1.

   an experimental public school for kindergarten through grade 12; created and organized by teachers and parents and community leaders; operates independently of other schools

   Broaderpublic school

Questions about charter school

What does charter school mean?

charter school means "an experimental public school for kindergarten through grade 12; created and organized by teachers and parents and community leaders; operates independently of other schools".

Is charter school a common word?

charter school is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.