student body
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of student body
First recorded in 1920–25
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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
As our anonymous community survey this spring found, Jewish students at MIT now report feeling more at home than the student body as a whole.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The student body has been getting younger, with "a lot more students from the high schools" enrolling at Apex Technical School, said Zelda Cuesta, agency coordinator.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
Southeast Academy in Norwalk is a public charter school offering a high school education with a military and law enforcement focus to a diverse and coeducational student body.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
In eight years Permian had gone from being a virtually all-white school to one where the proportion of minorities in the student body was about 30 percent.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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