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noun

the lowest school giving formal instruction, teaching the rudiments of learning, and extending usually from six to eight years.

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Also called primary school.

Origin of elementary school

First recorded in 1835–45

Words nearby elementary school

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How to use elementary school in a sentence

Some may have friends who don’t have kids, so they’re kind of in a different orbit and want friends in this orbit so it isn’t a lonely decade of pretending to be fascinated by elementary school basketball.
Carolyn Hax: No time for small talk? That’s building a big wall.|Carolyn Hax|February 11, 2021|Washington Post
Wilson first met Ballard in elementary school and the two became friends after performing in a school talent show.
Mary Wilson, Founding Member Of The Supremes, Has Died At 76|Brande Victorian|February 9, 2021|Essence.com
We’ve even got kids in elementary school who, with their parents, make daily precipitation observations and go online and enter them as part of a national database.
As Earth warms, will snowstorms be a thing of the past?|Haben Kelati|January 26, 2021|Washington Post
Minna-Choe said she’d never heard of climate change until she moved to San Diego at the end of elementary school.
Environment Report: Local Farms Want Your Table Scraps|MacKenzie Elmer|January 25, 2021|Voice of San Diego

Salmon and Hogan urged in-person instruction for students with special needs and at least hybrid instruction with some in-person schooling for elementary school students.
D.C. will resume indoor dining Friday as coronavirus cases hover at elevated levels|Julie Zauzmer, Rebecca Tan, Erin Cox, Gregory S. Schneider|January 22, 2021|Washington Post
Although Huckabee's condescending tone - like that of an elementary school history teacher - makes it difficult to take seriously.
Huckabee 2016: Bend Over and Take It Like a Prisoner!|Olivia Nuzzi|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
And then I did teachers all throughout elementary school and junior high for my friends.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Supporters pointed to math and literacy gains, while critics noted that those improvements disappeared in elementary school.
Can the U.S. Government Go Moneyball?|Peter Orszag, Jim Nussle|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A small-town Ohio elementary school teacher just racked up 25 charges on an otherwise clean record for allegedly raping her son.
Ohio Elementary School Teacher Charged With Raping Her Son|Nina Strochlic|November 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Determined, she dropped out and taught herself everything from the elementary school level through high school.
How ‘Titanic ’Helped This Brave Young Woman Escape North Korea’s Totalitarian State|Lizzie Crocker|October 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A child enters the elementary school at the age of about six years.
Mentally Defective Children|Alfred Binet
A longer period of elementary school life during which no child shall be employed for other than educational purposes.
Cambridge Essays on Education|Various
Elementary school children have a large measure of initiative; all they need is a real chance to exercise it.
Cambridge Essays on Education|Various
The method by which elementary school children pass to the secondary school is by means of competitive scholarships.
Cambridge Essays on Education|Various
They were expected however to help the children at their lessons for the elementary school before the family retired.
English As We Speak It in Ireland|P. W. Joyce

British Dictionary definitions for elementary school

elementary school

noun

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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elementary school

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