elementary school
noun
: a school including usually the first four to the first eight grades and often a kindergarten
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The Guadalupe Centers district — which serves 1,600 students — has a library in its elementary school, but not in the middle or high schools.
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Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 13 Dec. 2025
Travis currently runs from pre-k through 8th grade; the elementary school students and staff would be split between Garcia Elementary School and Austin Environmental Science Academy, while the middle school students and staff would move to Fannin Middle School, which sits at 62% capacity.
—Steven Rosenbaum, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2025
Parents who crowded in to a standing-room-only Grapevine-Colleyville school board meeting lost their fight to keep Bransford and Dove elementary schools open as trustees voted 5-2 late Wednesday night to close the campuses and consolidate them with existing schools.
—Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Dec. 2025
Hundreds of elementary school students did their best to sit still and stay pin-drop silent as first-grade teacher Stephanie Lane made her way into the lunchroom Thursday.
—Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 11 Dec. 2025
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Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 13 Dec. 2025
Travis currently runs from pre-k through 8th grade; the elementary school students and staff would be split between Garcia Elementary School and Austin Environmental Science Academy, while the middle school students and staff would move to Fannin Middle School, which sits at 62% capacity.
—Steven Rosenbaum, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2025
Parents who crowded in to a standing-room-only Grapevine-Colleyville school board meeting lost their fight to keep Bransford and Dove elementary schools open as trustees voted 5-2 late Wednesday night to close the campuses and consolidate them with existing schools.
—Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Dec. 2025
Hundreds of elementary school students did their best to sit still and stay pin-drop silent as first-grade teacher Stephanie Lane made her way into the lunchroom Thursday.
—Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 11 Dec. 2025
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“Elementary school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elementary%20school. Accessed 17 Dec. 2025.
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