: old enough to go to school
school-age children

Examples of school-age in a Sentence

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Photo: courtesy of Ben Mezrich Ben and Tonya Mezrich’s country house is in rural Vermont, but because it’s ruled by their pugs, Bagel and Cream Cheese, as well as their two school-age children, its defining quality is not so much pastoral tranquility as a kind of happy domestic chaos. Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024 This program offers 21 different career pathways and works with more than 180 companies to hire school-age apprentices. Bruno V. Manno, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024 In 1989, the government also created a junior duck stamp program to help teach school-age children about conservation. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024 Researchers involved in the study set out to assess how many adults had been diagnosed with autism because earlier studies largely focused on school-age children, said Luke Grosvenor, the study's lead author and a postdoctoral fellow at Kaiser Permanente's Northern California research division. Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 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 24 Nov. 2024.

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