The phrase "about five schools" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when estimating or approximating the number of schools in a particular context.
Example: "In our town, there are about five schools that offer specialized programs for gifted students."
Alternatives: "approximately five schools" or "roughly five schools".
The officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity and who have participated in the investigation, either as investigators or witnesses, said that about five schools eventually distributed the materials to students.
The US investment banking giant, which employs more than 6,000 staff in the UK, is understood to have already paid fees of up to €22,000 (£19,700) per student at about five schools for the academic year that started in September.
Now we have about five or six parades and about five school systems.
The inquiries follow reports in Newsday about five school districts classifying an outside lawyer, Lawrence Reich, as a payroll employee, enabling him to qualify for employee benefits including a state pension.
In Luton the council has raised concerns with Ofsted about two schools.
An organization called Stressed Out Students, which is headed by Denise Clark Pope, a Stanford education professor, has a list of about twenty-five schools, mostly in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley, that have pledged to try to make students and their parents less driven.
If you negate all the gimmicky financial mechanisms in college athletics, there are only about six schools that aren't relying on some form of institutional subsidy to make their budgets.
Another two years were then spent following his father to naval stations; altogether he attended about twenty schools during his youth.
"I had about ten schools before I was five and was just a nervy, terrified little thing from a young age," she says.
For all its vitriol, Saturday's 83rd renewal of the USC-UCLA football game at the Coliseum is about two schools but one community, two visions but one destination, two heartbeats but one city's soul.
"The Brothers Garcia," which had its premiere this summer, is about three school-age siblings growing up in suburban San Antonio.
