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Definition of Elementary school

1. Noun. A school for young children; usually the first 6 or 8 grades.

Definition of Elementary school

1. Noun. (schools) 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. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Elementary School

Literary usage of Elementary school

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal by New York (N.Y.). Board of Education (1854)
"66 BOARD OF EDUCATION course, but no person not now teaching in the last two years of the elementary school course shall be appointed teacher of a ..."

2. A Textbook in the History of Modern Elementary Education: With Emphasis on by Samuel Chester Parker (1912)
"Hence the elementary school continued to be dominated by religious ideals. 2. The schools of Puritan Massachusetts are good representatives of this narrow ..."

3. Comparative Education: Studies of the Educational Systems of Six Modern Nations by Peter Sandiford, Isaac Leon Kandel, Harold Waldstein Foght, Arthur H. Hope (1918)
"British Columbia attaches a superior school to the existing elementary school wherever there are ten pupils qualified and available for high-school studies; ..."

4. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1909)
"Length of the elementary school Course HON. JOHN T. PRINCE, WEST NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS OR many years it was an almost universal custom in Massachusetts and ..."

5. Readings in the History of Education: A Collection of Sources and Readings by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1920)
"Every elementary school which is conducted in accordance with the following regulations shall be a public elementary school within the meaning of this act; ..."

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