yeargroup

plural yeargroups · alternative year-group

1. educationThe body of students corresponding to a particular grade level or year of study.

   Some yeargroups broke down into cliques, usually dividing between the two primary training groups: hand-to-hand combat versus the marksmen.

   2016, J. Kathleen Cheney, Dreaming Death, page 255

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   Social units intermediate in size between the individual and the whole school are discussed. These units are the year-groups, seen as developing collective perspectives which follow from the interaction between students' initial perspectives and their shared experiences, and the fraternities which were seen to structure daily social interaction.

   1992, Charles C. Ragin, Howard Saul Becker, What Is a Case?: Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry