school staff
Educators and administrators
School staff are the people employed by a school—teachers, administrators, counselors, custodians, cafeteria workers, and others who keep the institution running.
The term groups all employees together regardless of role: The principal addressed the entire school staff at the meeting.
Staff can be singular or plural: The school staff is dedicated or The school staff are preparing for the new year.
- teachersThose who instruct students
- principalChief school administrator
- vice principalSchool administrator's deputy
- janitorBuilding cleaner and maintainer
- librarianCollection manager at reading hall
secretary · counselor · nurse · custodian · coach · aide · cafeteria · bus driver · hallway · faculty · administration · front office · classroom · recess · detention · lounge · substitute · superintendent
- mandatory reportersteachers, doctors, nurses, social workers, counselors
- essential workersdoctor, nurse, paramedic, EMT, firefighter
- government workerscivil servants, federal workers, civil servant, bureaucrat, federal employees
- UK Schoolsacademies, sixth form, academy
school staffstudents
Those receiving instruction
pupils · student body · schoolchildren · learners · enrollees
school, staff, schools, schooled, schooling, schooler, preschool, schoolhouse, schoolmaster