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noun

a school usually covering the first three or four years of elementary school and sometimes kindergarten.

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Origin of primary school

First recorded in 1795–1805

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How to use primary school in a sentence

Children in primary schools were reportedly warned by their teachers not to attend the weekend protests—a haunting throwback to the age of Communist youth indoctrination and intimidation.
Alexey Navalny Is Succeeding Where Putin's Other Opponents Have Failed. Why?|Michael Weiss|January 27, 2021|Time
An emerging body of research has shown that younger children in primary schools typically experience mild or no symptoms of the virus and are less likely to transmit it.
Two School Districts Had Different Mask Policies. Only One Had a Teacher on a Ventilator.|by Annie Waldman and Heather Vogell|November 23, 2020|ProPublica
“Only being allowed outside for an hour a day was awful,” said Tessa Patrao, 27, who is finally back at work as a primary school teacher after the 112-day stay-at-home order.
A city offers harsh lessons after emerging from one of the world’s longest lockdowns|Claire Zillman, reporter|October 28, 2020|Fortune
In July, Meira Levinson, a professor of education at Harvard, co-authored an article in The New England Journal of Medicine laying out how to reopen primary schools.
The Students Left Behind by Remote Learning|by Alec MacGillis|September 28, 2020|ProPublica

In Denmark the positivity rate was at 6 percent when primary schools reopened, and under 1 percent when high schools reopened a month later.
When Can Schools Safely Reopen? The Answer Is Part Science, Part Guesswork.|Kaleigh Rogers (kaleigh.rogers@fivethirtyeight.com)|August 19, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
She saw her first tourist 10 years ago, three years before the village got a primary school.
A Little Too Off the Beaten Path in Burma|Katya Cengel|June 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He was killed in the attack, which Boya Dee tweeted happened "right next to a primary school."
Rapper Live-Tweets London 'Terror' Attack|Brian Ries|May 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Kate was visiting the Willows Primary School, which is, against all the odds, one of the city's most successful primaries.
Kate Dazzles in Erdem on Manchester's 'Shameless' Estate|Tom Sykes|April 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Among his eight primary school classmates, 24-year-old Moshe Uzan says that only one other remains in Tunisia.
The Last Jews of Tunisia|Paul Rosenfeld, Noah Rayman|March 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Would Lanza really have been gang-rushed by fast-thinking primary school students if he stopped to reload?
Can Collective Action Stop Mass Shooters?|Megan McArdle|December 18, 2012|DAILY BEAST
There are fifty little boys and girls who go to the Blank street Primary School.
The Nursery, August 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 2|Various
There seemed to be no disagreement on the question of educating boys and girls of primary-school age together.
Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents|Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.
Acts of indecency had occurred long before they went to the post-primary school.
Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents|Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.
The desirability of co-education at the post-primary school level, however, was frequently disputed.
Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents|Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.
In planning one post-primary school the rate of 0.7 children to a family was adopted.
Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents|Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.

British Dictionary definitions for primary school

primary school

noun

(in Britain) a school for children below the age of 11. It is usually divided into an infant and a junior section

(in the US and Canada) a school equivalent to the first three or four grades of elementary school, sometimes including a kindergarten

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