How to Use school-age in a Sentence

school-age

adjective
  • As the parent of school-age kids, this does seem bad.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Those with school-age kids may need childcare once school is out.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Those with school-age kids may need childcare once school is out.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
  • That still leaves them with three children of school-age to contend with, of course.
    — Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
  • The next morning, his school-age son came out of the house and wanted to check out the boat.
    — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Carter was the fifth school-age child killed in Baltimore this year.
    — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Vaccination rates are very low among school-age kids.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 13 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Meanwhile, her school-age daughter eats right after school.
    — Melissa Willets, Parents, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Now 36, she is married with three school-age children who were born here.
    — Corey Williams, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The two school-age daughters attend private school.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Some in the audience brought their school-age children to see Chan.
    — Anthony Demarco, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Only half of all school-age children in the region attend school.
    — Ogar Monday, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Feb. 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
  • Schmidt said enrollment trends have seen the most growth with the youngest of school-age families.
    — Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The first death was a school-age child in Gaines County, Texas, last week.
    — Maria Godoy, NPR, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Whether or not a school-age child spends their school day on a screen shouldn’t be dependent on where mom or dad can find a job.
    — Abby McCloskey, Boston Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
  • It’s designed for school-age children and teens, though many parents train alongside their kids.
    — William Jones, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
  • No parent of a school-age kid needs to be told how crazy the calendar is in the month of May.
    — Beth Collums, AJC.com, 30 May 2026
  • Hopefully any parents of school-age children who are reading this will take heed.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Sargassum odors have led to an increase in nausea and headaches among school-age children.
    — Farah Nibbs, The Conversation, 4 June 2024
  • The count includes only one death, a school-age child in Gaines County.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • School-board-election voters tend to be older than parents of school-age children.
    — Charles Homans, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Vaccination rates have dropped among school-age children.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 21 Nov. 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
  • The video showed small children, who appeared to be younger than school-age, in the immediate area of the fist fight.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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