Student
Pupil
noun, の adjective
One who is junior in life is a student or pupil. It's kind of like how a 先生 is someone who came previous to you in life. Cool how that works, right? Okay 生徒, get back to work!
This is a jukugo word, which usually means on'yomi readings from the kanji. If you know the readings of your kanji you'll know how to read this as well.
生徒がロボットだったら、宿題もちゃんと出すし、先生も楽だろうな。
If the students were robots, they would always turn in their homework and the teachers would have an easier time.
高校までは生徒のことを「生徒」とよぶけど、大学では学生のことを「生徒」とはよばないよ。
We call students "pupil" up through high school, but we don't call university students "pupils."
このクラスの先生は、生徒一人一人のことを対等に見てくれます。
The teachers in this class look at each student equally.