elementary school

noun

1. the lowest school giving formal instruction, teaching the rudiments of learning, and extending usually from six to eight years.

elementary school

noun

1. See primary school
   a former name for primary school
2. Also called (in the US)grade schoolgrammar school a state school in which instruction is given for the first six to eight years of a child's education

Word History and Origins

Origin of elementary school¹

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

Some may have friends who don’t have kids, so they’re kind of in a different orbit and want friends in this orbit so it isn’t a lonely decade of pretending to be fascinated by elementary school basketball.

From Washington Post

Wilson first met Ballard in elementary school and the two became friends after performing in a school talent show.

From Essence.com

We’ve even got kids in elementary school who, with their parents, make daily precipitation observations and go online and enter them as part of a national database.

From Washington Post

Minna-Choe said she’d never heard of climate change until she moved to San Diego at the end of elementary school.

From Voice of San Diego

Salmon and Hogan urged in-person instruction for students with special needs and at least hybrid instruction with some in-person schooling for elementary school students.

From Washington Post

Although Huckabee's condescending tone - like that of an elementary school history teacher - makes it difficult to take seriously.

From The Daily Beast

And then I did teachers all throughout elementary school and junior high for my friends.

From The Daily Beast

Supporters pointed to math and literacy gains, while critics noted that those improvements disappeared in elementary school.

From The Daily Beast

A small-town Ohio elementary school teacher just racked up 25 charges on an otherwise clean record for allegedly raping her son.

From The Daily Beast

Determined, she dropped out and taught herself everything from the elementary school level through high school.

From The Daily Beast

A child enters the elementary school at the age of about six years.

From Project Gutenberg

A longer period of elementary school life during which no child shall be employed for other than educational purposes.

From Project Gutenberg

Elementary school children have a large measure of initiative; all they need is a real chance to exercise it.

From Project Gutenberg

The method by which elementary school children pass to the secondary school is by means of competitive scholarships.

From Project Gutenberg

They were expected however to help the children at their lessons for the elementary school before the family retired.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• grade school
• grammar school