The phrase "late student" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who arrived after the allotted time or who was working on something that was overdue. For example, "The teacher scolded the late student for not turning in his essay on time."
A welcoming recognition of a late student lets the student know that you are aware of his/her lateness without giving opportunity to spiraling incivility.
Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, Calhoun Head of College Julia Adams, and President Peter Salovey are pictured with members of Roosevelt Thompson's family under the portrait of the late student that now hangs in the Calhoun dining hall.
The principal who empathizes that "I did not learn to read until fourth grade," or the chemistry teacher who tells the chronically late student that "I cut classes so much, I repeated junior year," can offer more than what is taught in textbooks.
When the study leader reacted angrily to the late student's arrival, the students were more likely to answer the customer email in a rude way.
A better approach is simply to welcome the late student.
In it, the PRMIA reports that nearly two-thirds of financial services risk professionals (the people who track and analyze loan delinquencies and defaults) expect the problem of late student loan payments to worsen in the months ahead.
Along the way, a person lay in distress in the hallway, but the late students rushed right by and didn't help.
I remember the head of one department in my former university posting guards at the door of lecture theatres to turn away late students, in case this made a bad impression.
Take a stroll down any corridor in my college just five minutes after class has begun and you'll see enough finger-wagging and chastising of late students to warm even David Starkey's heart.
Do not try to embarrass late students in front of the class.
And because they stay till late, students are 'obliged' to keep working deep into the night because they would feel guilty if they went home earlier than the Sensei.
