school-leaving age BrE
school graduation age AmE

Above school-leaving age, the independent and state sectors are similarly structured.

The school-leaving age was raised, and the birth-rate remained high throughout the period 1944 to 1949.

In 1968, the raising to sixteen of the school-leaving age was postponed.

The school-leaving age was raised from 14 to 15 (1944).

The merger was a direct result of the government raising the school-leaving age to 16.

He worked as a coal-miner from school-leaving age (c. 1930) until 1938.

The administration also made clear its intention to raise school-leaving age to 16 (from the then 15).

At the moment we are not in a position to raise the school-leaving age or increase the teaching staffs of the elementary schools.

For the diagnosis and treatment of children and adolescents, generally until school-leaving age.

More children than before are now acquiring a formal education beyond the minimum school-leaving age.