schoolage

Time for kindergarten

Schoolage describes the period of childhood during which children typically attend school, roughly ages five through eighteen.

The word functions as an adjective: schoolage children, schoolage population.

Usually hyphenated as school-age, though the closed form appears in informal writing.

developmental

childhood

Life's earliest phase

growing · prepubescent · cognitive · milestones · readiness · maturation · learning · socialization · developmental · foundational

educational

enrollment

Act of registering officially

literacy · numeracy · classroom · homework · grades · testing · instruction · academic · lessons · subjects

demographic

population

All inhabitants combined

bracket · children · youth · minors · dependents · household · projections · generation · headcount · district

policy

compulsory

Required, not optional

cutoff · requirements · legislation · regulations · admission · compliance · exemption · homeschool · documentation · verification

Opposites
developmental stage

schoolagepreschool

Early childhood educational program

adult · infancy · toddlerhood · babyhood · adulthood

Family

school, age, schools, schooled, schooling, schooler, preschool, schoolhouse, schoolmaster

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