school-age child

1. 1.

   a young person attending school (up through senior high school)

   Synonymsschoolchildpupil

   Broaderyoung person

   Narrowerboarderday boarderlatchkey childschoolboy

Questions about school-age child

What does school-age child mean?

school-age child means "a young person attending school (up through senior high school)".

What is another word for school-age child?

Close synonyms include schoolchild, pupil. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is school-age child a common word?

school-age child is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.