In a boarding-school
Note by H Craik to chapter 11 of Tale of a Tub

Is more doubtful. The word is frequently found both in Swift and his contemporaries, and always, apparently, in the sense of a girls' school. Cf. Cadenus and Vanessa

'A blockhead with melodious voice
In boarding-school can have his choice.'

Swift seems here to ascribe the same influence to the sectary.