"failure at school" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when describing the struggles someone has experienced in an academic setting. For example, "John had faced a lot of failure at school, so he was determined to prove himself by excelling at college."
Billy is a persecuted soul, a loner, a troublemaker, a failure at school.
I hadn't been to university – I thought writing wasn't for the likes of me, a failure at school.
"It is often linked to failure at school," said Bellini – boys who drop out of school can be compulsorily enlisted.
Despite my repeated failure at school, he constantly encouraged me to see myself as clever and I eventually did OK.
That failure at school level becomes painfully apparent in the case of one of the Churchill candidates.
A lot of the kids in the neighbourhood turn out to be smart adults, despite failure at school.
Failures at school and in youth welfare institutions are common [ 105].
Further investigations are also required in order to examine whether low self-esteem and insecurity amongst individuals with ADHD, which may develop due to failures at school and in personal relationships [ 103], might be prevented or ameliorated by early treatment with an extended period of symptom management over the day.
These include failure experiences at school, rejections, humiliations and other kinds of interactions caused and/or contributed to by the inattentiveness, overactivity and impulse-control deficits that characterize this behavioral disorder.
Lee Nicosia, a middle school English teacher, took advantage of the power failure at her school to power-shop at Costco, but she said the war was definitely on her mind.
Failure at surfing school.
