school board

1. 1.

   a board in charge of local public schools

   Synonymsboard of education

   Broaderboard

Questions about school board

What does school board mean?

school board means "a board in charge of local public schools".

What is another word for school board?

Close synonyms include board of education. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is school board a common word?

school board 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.