grade schools

Where children learn

Grade schools are elementary schools—educational institutions for children roughly ages five through eleven, covering kindergarten through fifth or sixth grade.

The term is primarily American: My kids go to the local grade school.

The name reflects the division of early education into numbered grades or levels.

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primary education · recess · playground monitor · curriculum · early childhood education · reading circle · basic education · report card · gold star · principal · textbooks · kindergarten · show and tell · class pet · parent-teacher association · child development · academic programs · spelling bee

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educational level

grade schoolsuniversities

Institutions granting advanced degrees

high schools · colleges · graduate schools · secondary schools · postgraduate programs

institutional formality

grade schoolsunschooling

Self-directed home education

homeschooling · home education · self-directed learning · informal education · free schools

Family

grade, school, grades, graded, grading, grader, graders, gradation, gradations

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