elementary school
noun
: a school including usually the first four to the first eight grades and often a kindergarten
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Generally, elementary school students are not allowed to use their phones, and the school system highly recommends that elementary school students do not bring a cellphone to school.
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Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 16 July 2024
Cadence has seen the little stars adorn plenty of acne-free faces at her elementary school; Annie Miller, 15, has seen the same in the halls of her public high school in Fountain Hills, Ariz.
—Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
Arriving in Tucson, in 1924 by train, to begin service as an elementary school teacher, the only transport from the train station to Globe was by stagecoach on dirt roads.
—Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
The third elementary school the board voted to close, Snake River, will house the district’s Gateways program, a K-12 alternative school that has been housed at the former Lincoln Elementary, a 70-year-old building in need of significant updates.
—Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 9 July 2024
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Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 16 July 2024
Cadence has seen the little stars adorn plenty of acne-free faces at her elementary school; Annie Miller, 15, has seen the same in the halls of her public high school in Fountain Hills, Ariz.
—Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
Arriving in Tucson, in 1924 by train, to begin service as an elementary school teacher, the only transport from the train station to Globe was by stagecoach on dirt roads.
—Sam Kmack, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
The third elementary school the board voted to close, Snake River, will house the district’s Gateways program, a K-12 alternative school that has been housed at the former Lincoln Elementary, a 70-year-old building in need of significant updates.
—Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 9 July 2024
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“Elementary school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elementary%20school. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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