The phrase "a section of students" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific group or subset of students within a larger population, often in educational contexts.
Example: "A section of students participated in the science fair, showcasing their innovative projects."
Alternatives: "a group of students" or "a subset of students".
On Feb. 7, four weeks after facing Camby, Daniels went to sleep in his home in a section of student housing near campus known as the "UD ghetto". "No aneurysm, no blood clot, no obvious cause of death," Ken Betz, the director of the Montgomery County coroner's office, reported in a press release.
We don't have a problem with students, only with a section of the students, people with ulterior motives".
#WeAreInCredit #PorteOuverte pic.twitter.com/WdyeBzrtk4 And here's a section of our students on the #students4migrants walkout outside University Place.
Because a section of the students surveyed did not leave school until a later date or were still attending school at the time of the survey, the sample size upon which the analyses are based is less than the total sample size of 5333 obtained in the BIBB Transition Study 2011.
On Saturday, Sept. 24th a section of Carolina students at the Pitt vs. UNC football game sat during the national anthem, some with raised fists, to add their voice to the national outcry against police brutality and racial profiling that was now raging in a major city in North Carolina, only a couple hours away from their idyllic campus.
Unbeknownst to Wager, the pair were both on bail - Wilkerson for $20,000, Boudin for $40,000 - for destructive acts committed during the infamous Days of Rage protests fomented by a radical section of Students for a Democratic Society SDSS) in Chicago the previous autumn.
Many of these on-campus schools take a cross section of students and push them to achieve at levels duplicated by only a small number of other high schools in the city.
But more than half take a cross section of students -- potential dropouts, underperformers, immigrants still learning English -- and push them to achieve at levels duplicated by only a small number of other high schools in the city.
Many universities will also make bursaries available to a wider section of students than this and these are paid in cash or in kind (accommodation, books or a bike, perhaps) as universities try to tempt you.
