The independent Darul Uloom School in Birmingham is featured in a Channel 4 Dispatches investigation called Lessons in Hatred and Violence.
According to Channel 4, the programme shows secret footage of adults at the school teaching pupils as young as 11 contempt for other religions and wider society.
A spokesman for the school has fiercely denied the claims, but confirmed that the school would close for two weeks from the 15 February, to protect pupils in the aftermath of the programme.
A statement from the school said Channel 4 had targeted them unfairly by "surreptitiously recording" inside the school for longer than six months.
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