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Free school may refer to:

Education

  • A school that provides free education, not charging for attendance
  • Free school (England), a type of publicly financed but independently run school in England since 2011
  • Free school movement, an American education reform movement during the 1960s and 1970s that sought to change the aims of formal schooling through alternative, independent community schools
  • Free skool or anarchistic free school, an autonomous, nonhierarchical space intended for educational exchange and skillsharing, especially among anarchists
  • A term for independent schools in certain countries, such as Swedish free schools (Swedish: friskolor)
  • Democratic school, a school where classes are voluntary

See also

  • Democratic education, schooling run as direct democracies
  • List of democratic schools, in which students have the freedom to design their own curriculum and participate in running the school
  • London Free School, a counterculture community school of UK Underground also involved with the creation of the Notting Hill Carnival
  • Free School of Evanston, a school in Evanston, Illinois, US
  • Freedom School, an American libertarian school in the 20th century
  • Freedom Schools, temporary, alternative free schools for American Southern blacks during the 1964 Freedom Summer
  • Jean-Baptiste (songwriter), also known as Free School