REFORMATORY SCHOOL  , an institution for the

industrial training of juvenile offenders, in which they are lodged, clothed and fed, as well as taught . They are to be distinguished from " industrial schools," which are institutions for potential and not actual delinquents . To reformatory schools in England are sent juveniles up to the age of sixteen who have been convicted of an offence punishable with penal servitude or imprisonment . The order is made by the court before which they are tried; the limit of detention is the age of nineteen . Reformatory schools are regulated by the Children Act 19o8, which repealed the Reformatory Schools Act 1866, as amended by acts of 1872, 1874, 1891, 1893, 1899 and loot . See further JUVENILE OFFENDERS .