School defined. A school can be an elementary
school, junior or senior high school,
college, university, or technical, trade, or mechanical
school.
To be a dependent,
3. The child you, must have lived with mom for more than half of the year.
4. The child, you, must not have provided more than half of his or her own support for the year.
Support includes the cost of housing proportionally , i.e. your mom's home.
According to Table 5 in IRS Pub 501, if you can show these rules were not met, you are not a dependent.
