public school

Questions about public school

What does public school mean?

public school means "a tuition free school in the United States supported by taxes and controlled by a school board". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is public school a common word?

public school is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.