12th graders

High school seniors

12th graders are students in the final year of American secondary education, typically seventeen or eighteen years old.

The term is standard in the United States, where grades are numbered rather than named.

The 12th graders are already talking about prom.

In other countries, this level goes by different names: Year 13 in Britain, terminale in France.

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First-year elementary students

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Newly enrolled students

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