schoolchild

plural schoolchildren · alternative school-child · alternative school child

1. A young person attending school or of an age to attend school.

   Spring ahead, fall back: Kathleen had once learned some rhyme about that when she was a schoolchild, but she no longer remembered it.

   2011, Meg Mitchell Moore, The Arrivals

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   They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

   1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 9

   […] the Wisconsin legislature passed a law providing incentives for transfers of schoolchildren in the metropolitan area, both intradistrict and interdistrict.

   1988 January 29, Steve Bogira, “Interdistrict Transfer”, in Chicago Reader

   Synonyms: pupil, student, schoolkid