"schoolchildren" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer specifically to the students who attend a school. For example, "The schoolchildren were given a homework assignment at the end of the day."
Relatives, friends and teachers of 16 German schoolchildren who were returning from an exchange in Spain when the plane crashed are also present.
It is also reflective of a dark cultural truth where, to a lot of schoolchildren, particularly in America, the high school has become a genuinely dangerous place to be.
Malone was renowned for marshalling his underachieving charges to believe that they were the best schoolchildren around.
The example most often cited is Mohamed Merah, the French-Algerian who killed three soldiers as well as three Jewish schoolchildren and a teacher last March.
Over the summer, under the gaze of their guardians, the harriers raised nine chicks, four of which were named by local schoolchildren: Sky, Hope, Highlander and Burt.
It also let pass without challenge a frankly insane franchise that cut out the third largest Scottish city on earth (London), and handed it to (splendid, but quite possibly over-optimistic) schoolchildren.
Some marchers - including about 80 schoolchildren - carried banners saying "An attack on our president is an attack on the ANC".
All Muscat's schoolchildren will be treated to two hours' sailing a week, spread over five weeks, enough to pick up the basics.
On top of that, in 1977 the supreme court ruled that the eighth amendment protection against "cruel and unusual punishment" did not apply to schoolchildren, after hearing a case in which students were hit regularly with paddles for minor infractions, one "depriving him of the use of his arms for a week," and one student was hit so severely "that he suffered a hematoma requiring medical attention".
A survey of 6,000 schoolchildren has found widespread misconceptions about the number of immigrants and non-white people living in England, as well as negative attitudes towards Muslims and those born overseas.
Produced and directed by her for the BBC, it followed primary schoolchildren from across Britain in a poetry recitation competition, and brought her another Bafta award.
