school year

noun

1. the months of the year during which school is open and attendance at school is required.

2. academic year.

school year

noun

1. a twelve-month period, (in Britain) usually starting in late summer and continuing for three terms until the following summer, during which pupils remain in the same class

2. the time during this period when the school is open

Word History and Origins

Origin of school year¹

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

A new school year brings an array of feelings: excitement, anticipation, nervousness, homesickness.

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Portable bungalows now sit on the lower yard, leaving the upper yard as a construction zone for the permanent buildings, which are slated to be completed in the 2028-29 school year.

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Last school year, the Culver City athletic trainer helped save a track athlete who went into cardiac arrest.

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Nearly one in three Latino kindergartners and transitional kindergartners were still chronically absent during the 2023-24 school year, according to state data cited in the report.

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The first discussion of the new school year is relatively innocuous though no less testing for being so.

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