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school age

noun

  1. the age set by law for children to start school attendance.
  2. the period of school attendance required by law.


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Other Words From

  • school-age adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of school age1

First recorded in 1735–45

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Example Sentences

“The jailer had a high-school-age daughter and was uncertain how to help her get in college,” writes Ferris.

Kids ranging from 17 down to elementary-school age mill about, waiting to be called by the court.

School-age children with rumbling tummies move their styrofoam trays in an orderly lunch line.

Of those there are perhaps 50,000 children—roughly 25,000 are school age; the rest are younger.

Before Mean Girls, high-school-age girls probably spent hours preparing elaborate Halloween costumes.

There seemed to be no disagreement on the question of educating boys and girls of primary-school age together.

It accordingly searches out illiterate children of school age, or persons smitten with infectious disease.

That was William Frantz so he was of school age at the time we are talking about.

A system of compulsory education is enforced in Japan, and 98 per cent, of the children of school age attend.

From the beginning of school age to about fourteen years of age the improvement of most aspects of memory is rapid.

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