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Common collocations with school in American Collocation

school noun

US /skul/

begin to go to school

enter
start

I passed the entrance examination and entered the school in 1931.

go to school

attend
be at
go to

About 82 per cent of young entrants to undergraduate courses had attended such schools.

stop going to school

finish
leave

After finishing secondary school, Eisenstein enrolled at an institute for Civil Engineering.

stop going to school before the usual age

drop out

She got involved in drugs, and dropped out of high school before she graduated.

be forced to leave school because of bad behaviour

be booted out of
be expelled from
be kicked out of

I was on the verge of being kicked out of school for missing classes.