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• a  relating to or supported by or located in a parish
  parochial schools
• s  narrowly restricted in outlook or scope
  little sympathy with parochial mentality

• Students in Roman Catholic parochial schools are academically ahead of those in public schoolseven though their classes are overcrowded, understaffed and lacking many of the .
• The wholly temporal reason was that parochial schools, which enroll half the white pupils in New Orleans, get tax-paid books and supplies from the segregationist state legislature.
• The nation's Catholic parochial schools have been closing during the past five years at an average rate of one per day, economic victims of inflation and a declining supply of nuns .

• insular

Quotes

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• Robert Gates in FOXNews
  There's no question that a lot of these decisions will be controversial,Gates said. "My hope is that as we have tried to do here in this building -- that the members of Congress will rise above parochial interests and consider what is in...
• Barack Obama in Los Angeles Times
  It's a testimony to the success of the European Union, as well as NATO, that on very important issues, each leader seems to be able to rise above parochial interests in order to achieve common objectives,Obama said. "And I think that has...