Not attending school and therefore free to work.(adjective)
Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
Use "out-of-school" in a sentence
"Because suspended students miss instructional time, frequent use of out-of-school suspension also reduces students' opportunity to learn."
"The reality is that test scores usually correlate more strongly with out-of-school social conditions borne of poverty and racism than with anything that happens inside the schoolhouse."
"It's true also that I pointed to research showing the opposite - that while teachers are a very important in-school factor, out-of-school factors related to parental educational level and family income are more strongly associated with student success."