How to Use school-age in a Sentence

school-age

adjective
  • The contest, the first held at the fair in over 20 years, is open to all school-age youth.
    — Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The first death was a school-age child in Gaines County, Texas, last week.
    — Maria Godoy, NPR, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Carter was the fifth school-age child killed in Baltimore this year.
    — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2023
  • That still leaves them with three children of school-age to contend with, of course.
    — Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Those with school-age kids may need childcare once school is out.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The count includes only one death, a school-age child in Gaines County.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • What good happens on a mobile device for a school-age child between the hours of say, 11 p.m. and 5 a.m.?
    — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Schmidt said enrollment trends have seen the most growth with the youngest of school-age families.
    — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The video showed small children, who appeared to be younger than school-age, in the immediate area of the fist fight.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The older, Anya, healthy and happy, had long lived with her husband and their two school-age children.
    — Lyudmila Ulitskaya, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Only half of all school-age children in the region attend school.
    — Ogar Monday, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Feb. 2025
  • If your school-age child is getting less than five servings of fruit a day, give them a half cup of any of these fruits, three to five times a day.
    — Amy Capetta, Parents, 13 June 2023
  • Shelby Jackson, an Arts Gowanus fellow, is there to see her studio for the first time, her school-age son in tow.
    — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 11 June 2025
  • His programs are available for all ages, but a good portion of his students are school-age.
    — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 12 July 2024
  • The other children under the supervision of the school-age child were 4 years old, 1 year old and 6 months old, deputies said.
    — Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 12 June 2025
  • Neil is also the proud grandfather to eight grandchildren, who range from school-age kids to young adults.
    — Francesca Gariano, Peoplemag, 4 Nov. 2023
  • One in four adults with measles will need to be hospitalized, a rate that is roughly two to three times that of school-age children.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Two school-age children have died in an outbreak centered in West Texas, and one adult died in New Mexico.
    — Meg Tirrell, CNN Money, 25 June 2025
  • Toma was the sponsor of the bill that in 2022 expanded Arizona's voucher program to every school-age child.
    — The Arizona Republic, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Sargassum odors have led to an increase in nausea and headaches among school-age children.
    — Farah Nibbs, The Conversation, 4 June 2024
  • Deloitte surveyed more than 1,200 caregivers of school-age children in May.
    — Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2025
  • When her children are school-age, Rachel gets together with her new group of mom friends, and the topic turns to how hard motherhood is.
    — Hannah Seligson, ELLE, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Meanwhile, her school-age daughter eats right after school.
    — Melissa Willets, Parents, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The San Gabriel mother of six shells out hundreds of dollars every summer to get her four school-age kids ready for the school year with new supplies, clothes and shoes.
    — Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The houses on Ridgewood Road and Jacobo Lane do not have school-age children residing in them.
    — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Even then, after decades of robotics research, the robot did a worse job than some school-age children.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2025
  • As older adults now outnumber school-age children in New York City, the need continues to grow.
    — David Graver, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2024
  • School-board-election voters tend to be older than parents of school-age children.
    — Charles Homans, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
  • In the second half of the 1800s, a group of Catholic missionaries gathered a group of school-age boys in French Polynesia and taught them how to grow, harvest and process pearl shells.
    — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Two unvaccinated school-age children died of the virus.
    — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 20 Aug. 2025

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