The phrase 'take time off school' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a period of time when a student is absent from school (usually due to illness, personal reasons, etc). For example: My daughter will be taking time off school next week for a doctor's appointment.
He refused to take time off school, where he excelled.
A mother who allowed her grieving son to take time off school after the death of his father may be jailed.
Drummer, Inspiral Carpets I was 14 when I joined Inspiral Carpets in 1985, and at first I had to take time off school when we had a gig.
Last week, police in Rhode Island had to be called to suppress an angry crowd at a school board meeting, and a 16-year-old atheist had to take time off school after being threatened and targeted by an online hate campaign.
Beard had been given special permission to take time off school in order to carry out his duties with Essex and England, but will now return to the classroom on Thursday.
India Ennenga who plays Sofia Creighton, daughter to Melissa Leo's Toni Bernette, says she had to take time off school at Brooklyn's St. Ann's to shoot on location.
Mr D'Aloisio took time off school to develop his idea for a smartphone application that offers summaries of existing news stories published on the net.
I explained I was visiting my boyfriend and that I had taken time off school because my older brother passed away four months earlier.
Two thirds of women reported an impact on education such as taking time off school (even for one whole semester), finding it hard to focus and being less productive in schoolwork.
These are still a year away but she has a rule about taking time off school.
She takes time off school and they sleep in a scraggy nest of plastic bags, hardly rendered magical by a few fairy lights.
