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"day pupil" is a correct and usable in written English.
You can use "day pupil" to refer to a student who only attends school during the day and does not stay overnight. Example: The school offers scholarships to day pupils from low-income families.
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day pupil
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A student who attends a boarding school but does not board there, continuing to live at home
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From 1839 he was a day pupil at Canon Poiloup's school in Vaugirard, where he studied French and the classics.
I was a day pupil, but the first five nights you had to board, as an introduction.
The average annual fee for a day pupil was around £13,000 three years ago but 10 years ago the same education cost £9,600 a year.
Jim attended Frensham Heights boarding school in Farnham, Surrey, from 1931 and then St Albans school as a day pupil from 1935.
Brighton College has a reputation for outstanding academic achievement, with fees ranging from about £21,000 a year for secondary day pupil and £33,000 for boarders.
The average annual fee for a day pupil is more than £13,000 a year – a rise of more than 3% compared with last year, but 37% higher than the £9,600 average in 2008.
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For seven days a week, 24 hours a day, pupils are immersed in a community entirely directed to helping them shine.
They charge an average of £13,000 a year for day pupils.
Before the main lesson every day pupils recall the previous day's subject to ensure they haven't forgotten it.
Last year, 16,675 day pupils spent an average of 12 nights each as occasional boarders in their schools.
The number of "occasional boarders" - day pupils who spend some nights as boarders in their schools - also rose, by 2.7%.
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