From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishday schoolˈday school noun [countable, uncountable] SESa school where the students go home in the evening rather than one where they live → boarding school
Examples from the Corpus
day school• The Methodist chapel was built in 1856, replacing an earlier building which was then used as a day school.• I am no longer with the nuns but am to attend a day school.• I was, of course, sent to a Catholic day school.• Almost the same number are Bengali children of middle-class families, who attend the day school. 