elementary school
- the lowest school giving formal instruction, teaching the rudiments of learning, and extending usually from six to eight years.
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Origin of elementary school
First recorded in 1835–45
Also called primary school.
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Kids ranging from 17 down to elementary-school age mill about, waiting to be called by the court.
She had been an elementary-school nurse for 30 years, for a time at the same school her daughter and son attended.
In light of the elementary-school mass shooting in Connecticut, gun control is once again up for debate.
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Not in public places, anyway, like bars, restaurants, hospital rooms, and elementary-school gymnasiums.
While the great majority of their elementary-school teachers are women, all the administrators are men.
elementary school
- British a former name for primary school
- Also called (in the US): grade school, grammar school US and Canadian a state school in which instruction is given for the first six to eight years of a child's education
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