schoolage

1. archaicA fee required for tuition at a school; a salary paid to a teacher.

   Thoſe teachers that be of the wiſer ſort, cal for their ſchoolage and minervals of their ſcholars, not all after one maner, but diverſly: a number of them, according as the preſent occaſion requireth, who promiſe not to make them wiſe men, and that within a yeere; […]

   1603, Plutarch, “The Contradictions of Stociek philoſophers”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 1068

plural schoolages

1. alternativeAlternative form of school age.

   After the Civil War, in order to determine how much revenue would be needed to educate all of the children of the state, a census was taken of schoolage children.

   1994, Anne S. Lipscomb, Kathleen S. Hutchison, Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors, Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 28