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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
school age
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But König's interest in schools spread predictably to provision for handicapped people beyond school age.
▪ Even within the compulsory school age, inequalities have remained.
▪ First-stage tinies progress to playing variations on Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and by school age are tackling several tunes.
▪ Internally the school is organized into separate departments, primary and secondary, which between them cover the entire school age range.
▪ Part of the reason is that by the time our toddlers are of school age, we take their talk for granted.
▪ She was a single parent on Income Support and had three young children, all below school age.
▪ The nineteen whom I interviewed included women with seven, five and four children, several under school age.
▪ The order will terminate when the child ceases to be of compulsory school age or if a care order is made.

Usage examples of "school age".

From it we will make a series of loans of our own, some of which will be into investment funds the interest on which will pay for the following: a subsistence ration of food, an issue of clothing to all working people and children of school age, and medical care of an improved standard.

Further on, rowdy youngsters of school age were hanging around a fast food restaurant in the Broadway, balancing on skateboards and climbing on the raised flowerbeds.

When he was high school age he used to kick my Melvin down one side of the playground and up the other side every recess time.

Your brothers Siegesmund and Alexander were already of school age and went their own ways.

Eleanor had just finished raising their two children to school age and had reentered the workforce.