elementary school
noun
: a school including usually the first four to the first eight grades and often a kindergarten
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On those service days and throughout the school year classes of students have taken turns picking up trash, raking and weeding beds, working in food pantries, helping at elementary schools and local nursing homes, and building wooden bird feeders and yard sets of dominoes.
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Cynthia Howell, arkansasonline.com, 14 Apr. 2024
Katie Mayer remembered making box eclipse viewers in elementary school and has been fascinated by them since but had never seen a total eclipse.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
In addition, the referendum would have funded districtwide grade reconfiguration by moving sixth-graders from the elementary schools to the middle school, along with the reconfiguration of Big Bend Elementary School's parking lot and dropoff areas.
—Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2024
The semiautomatic rifles that have wrought human carnage from an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., to a Walmart in El Paso are also being used to menace the Haitian government and terrorize the population.
—Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
The news site Gothamist reported last month that books on topics like Native American history and the Black Panther superhero were found in the trash at a Staten Island elementary school.
—Troy Closson, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
In 2021, a second Solid Rock Teen Center opened in a former elementary school at 122 N. Country Club Drive in Mesa.
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 2 Apr. 2024
The two elementary school students were placed in the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice.
—Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 1 Apr. 2024
Wednesday marks one year since a mass shooter, armed with two assault-like rifles and a handgun, killed six people at the Nashville Christian elementary school on March 27, 2023.
—USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
Cynthia Howell, arkansasonline.com, 14 Apr. 2024
Katie Mayer remembered making box eclipse viewers in elementary school and has been fascinated by them since but had never seen a total eclipse.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
In addition, the referendum would have funded districtwide grade reconfiguration by moving sixth-graders from the elementary schools to the middle school, along with the reconfiguration of Big Bend Elementary School's parking lot and dropoff areas.
—Alec Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 5 Apr. 2024
The semiautomatic rifles that have wrought human carnage from an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., to a Walmart in El Paso are also being used to menace the Haitian government and terrorize the population.
—Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
The news site Gothamist reported last month that books on topics like Native American history and the Black Panther superhero were found in the trash at a Staten Island elementary school.
—Troy Closson, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
In 2021, a second Solid Rock Teen Center opened in a former elementary school at 122 N. Country Club Drive in Mesa.
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 2 Apr. 2024
The two elementary school students were placed in the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice.
—Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 1 Apr. 2024
Wednesday marks one year since a mass shooter, armed with two assault-like rifles and a handgun, killed six people at the Nashville Christian elementary school on March 27, 2023.
—USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
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“Elementary school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elementary%20school. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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