Other forms: schoolchildren
A schoolchild is a boy or girl of the age that attends daily lessons. A schoolchild's handwriting.
The plural is schoolchildren, which is one of the few irregular plurals still used in official writing. The word names them by their years rather than by any role in a classroom.
1nounschoolchildA boy or girl of the age that attends daily lessons, named by their years rather than by their role in a classroom.
“Every schoolchild in the county was given the same booklet.”
schoolchild is a child.
From school + child.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA