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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. 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
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of elementary school1

First recorded in 1835–45
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Only about 30% of Palisades High’s campus was damaged or destroyed — including some classroom buildings and athletics facilities — but it is a much larger site than the two elementary schools, Carvalho said.

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They hired environmental consultants to assess the soil at the elementary schools.

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One of those spree shootings was at Sandy Hook, the Connecticut elementary school where 26 people were killed in 2012.

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Only 10% of instruction time goes to social studies in elementary school.

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This was the town Raines was raised in — where she went to preschool, elementary school and high school.

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