seventh graders

Twelve-year-old students

Seventh graders are students in the seventh year of formal schooling, typically twelve or thirteen years old.

In American education, seventh grade falls in middle school or junior high.

The term often evokes the awkwardness of early adolescence: Seventh graders can be brutal to each other.

Used attributively: seventh-grade math, seventh-grade drama.

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