Is the word pupil used in America for a child that goes to school?

We used to have in Britain the word pupil to describe someone who goes to school to learn and the word student to describe someone, usually at university, who studies. That also gave the distinction between active and passive. A pupil passively absorbs learning, a student actively pursues it. I notice from popular culture that Americans do not use pupil and the word is being lost here too, due to trendy British educationalists losing the plot. Am I correct in believing America does not use the word pupil in that sense?.