Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
school-leaver
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Fashion retailer seeks Sales Assistant - would suit enthusiastic school-leaver.
▪ Most towns have a careers service to help school-leavers find suitable jobs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If they borrow money, they are much more likely than early school-leavers to do so from a bank.
▪ In 1966 she was a 17-year-old school-leaver living in a furnished room in Blackheath.
▪ Mr Cormack foresees school-leavers having to fight even harder for a place here.
▪ Other recommendations: more status for vocational qualifications, and training credits for every 16-year-old school-leaver.
▪ Surely London employers were suffering from a desperate shortage of school-leavers?
▪ The executive grade undertakes a wide range of management tasks and is drawn from both graduates and the more able school-leavers.
▪ The focus is on school-leavers from Bury who have attended a three work residential course in Cumbria.
▪ We do not want, as our school-leavers, a lot of people who can talk about mathematics.
Wiktionary
school-leaver
n. A recently graduated high school student.