elementary school
noun
: a school including usually the first four to the first eight grades and often a kindergarten
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The Red Cross partnered with several organization and volunteers from all walks of life to help families displaced and sleeping at an elementary school nearby.
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Adi Guajardo, CBS News, 28 Nov. 2025
Cable car faces pressing deadline The cable car should help to ease overcrowding by whisking visitors directly from an elementary school in the town to the slopes.
—Reuters 6 Hr Ago, CNN Money, 28 Nov. 2025
One parent had obtained a religious exemption to the vaccine mandate from the state health department and enrolled her child in elementary school for the current school year before receiving an email in June from the local school superintendent rescinding the certificate, according to the lawsuit.
—Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 27 Nov. 2025
The attack along the popular biking trail near an elementary school shocked the small city of Ashland, with a population of around 21,000.
—Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 27 Nov. 2025
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Adi Guajardo, CBS News, 28 Nov. 2025
Cable car faces pressing deadline The cable car should help to ease overcrowding by whisking visitors directly from an elementary school in the town to the slopes.
—Reuters 6 Hr Ago, CNN Money, 28 Nov. 2025
One parent had obtained a religious exemption to the vaccine mandate from the state health department and enrolled her child in elementary school for the current school year before receiving an email in June from the local school superintendent rescinding the certificate, according to the lawsuit.
—Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 27 Nov. 2025
The attack along the popular biking trail near an elementary school shocked the small city of Ashland, with a population of around 21,000.
—Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 27 Nov. 2025
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“Elementary school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elementary%20school. Accessed 30 Nov. 2025.
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