Schoolchild vs. Student — What's the Difference?

A child attending school.

A student is primarily a person enrolled in a school or other educational institution and who is under learning with goals of acquiring knowledge, developing professions and achieving employment at desired field. In the broader sense, a student is anyone who applies themselves to the intensive intellectual engagement with some matter necessary to master it as part of some practical affair in which such mastery is basic or decisive.

A young person attending school or of an age to attend school.

One who is enrolled or attends classes at a school, college, or university.

A young person attending school (up through senior high school)

One who studies something

An attentive observer

A person who studies or learns about a particular subject.

A person who is formally enrolled at a school, a college or university, or another educational institution.

(in particular) A person who is enrolled at a college or university primary]] or secondary school.

A person engaged in study; one who is devoted to learning; a learner; a pupil; a scholar; especially, one who attends a school, or who seeks knowledge from professional teachers or from books; as, the students of an academy, a college, or a university; a medical student; a hard student.

One who studies or examines in any manner; an attentive and systematic observer; as, a student of human nature, or of physical nature.

A learner who is enrolled in an educational institution

A learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines