Elementary School Definition

noun
A school of the first six grades (sometimes, the first five or eight grades), where basic subjects are taught.
Webster's New World
The first four to eight years of a child's formal education.
American Heritage
(education) A school for children, typically older than toddlers and younger than adolescents. In the U.S., elementary schools cover grades 1 through 5, and the ages of the children are usually 6-11 years. At a minimum, elementary schools will teach basic reading, writing, arithmetic, and history.
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elementary school
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elementary-schools

Elementary School Sentence Examples

  • Elementary, of two grades, of the lower of which there must legally be at least one for boys and one for girls in each commune; while the upper grade elementary school is required in communes having normal and secondary schools or over 4000 inhabitants.

  • The first school was established by the Dutch at New Amsterdam (now New York City) as early as 1633, and at the close of the Dutch period there was a free elementary school in nearly every settlement.

  • His parents removed to Norwich where he attended an elementary school and evening classes.

  • In 1795 an act was passed which formed the basis of the present elementary-school system.

  • The elementary school is administered by a school commissioner in each of the school commissioner's districts into which a county may be divided, by one trustee or three trustees in.

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