From what I’ve seen Greg was raising him as a baby and he started staying with the lesbian polycule later in life but he’s a kid still and never seems to go to school. I suppose the Crystal Gems could’ve taught him but they seem ignorant of Earth culture as a whole.
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According to the comics, the gems taught him as he went along. He goes to school with Connie for a couple of days and they test him to see what class he’d be in – he passes it all easily.
I confirm you he was homeschooled by his dad and the gems. Steven can read and write like any boy of his age, but his unconventional education probably caused important holes in other areas… And gave him skills other students lacks, like reading Gem’s language
Not very.
This is actually a plot point in Steven Universe future. Steven starting to understand that he was never exposed to large chunks of human culture and lacks a lot of the skills that most people take for granted is something that starts driving a wedge between him and Greg.
Steven was homeschooled by Pearl mostly so he’s very advanced in maths and sciences (more than you’d think – he matches Connie’s performance in this regard) but horribly behind in anything not STEM: recent human history, civics, social studies, literature are all things Pearl wouldn’t know and thus wouldn’t be able to teach Steven.
He didn’t go to a public school for obvious reasons (people like to shit on Greg for this but Steven is effectively an undocumented half alien child,the government would have swooped in) but was taught some stuff by Greg and the gems and even Connie.