student body
Americannoun
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student bodies
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of student body
First recorded in 1920–25
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About half of the student body at Da Vinci Communications, the public charter school where Jackson still teaches, is economically disadvantaged, according to U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
The report described a risk-averse student body anxious about the cost of college and finding a good job.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Imperfectly, still: The student body in the UC system is less than a quarter Latino, in a state where Latinos are 40% of the population.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
This is particularly true since, unlike most of the countries ranked by the OECD, the student body in major American school districts is overwhelmingly low-income and heavily immigrant.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
When he saw I was serious and waiting for an answer, he said, “Yep, colleges like it when students do extra stuff at school, like running for student body office.”
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
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