: old enough to go to school
school-age children

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Locally, Parent to Parent volunteers help more than 2,000 families of school-age children and young adults with special needs in Miami-Dade. Caitlin Granfield, Miami Herald, 7 Jan. 2025 Before the war, UNRWA said its 288 schools educated 300,000 students in Gaza, nearly half of the territory’s school-age children, and its 22 medical clinics handled 2.6 million patient visits a year. Jack Nicas, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025 Research on tall poppy syndrome in high-performance school-age athletes showed instances of bullying towards girls, which also worsened their school life and well-being. Mark Travers, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025 The other, Amite School Center, began reporting enrollment of Black students in the past decade, but not enough to come close to reflecting the population of children in Amite County, where almost half of school-age kids are Black. Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 19 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for school-age 

Word History

First Known Use

1741, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of school-age was in 1741

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“School-age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/school-age. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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