elementary school
noun
: a school including usually the first four to the first eight grades and often a kindergarten
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Written by Mahdi Asghari Azghadi and directed by Puya Mofid, this searing Iranian drama unfolds within the confines of an elementary school, where a teacher’s harsh discipline leaves a young Black student traumatized and voiceless.
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Essie Assibu, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
Four months after Missouri’s Cancer Inquiry Advisory Committee met to discuss diagnoses at a Liberty elementary school, the group will meet again next week.
—Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2025
In Pecos, a West Texas oil-field town dotted with man camps, equipment yards, and the occasional roofless adobe structure melting into the scrub, packs of stray dogs congregated by the gas stations and the elementary schools.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025
As an elementary school kid raised in the Bronx, Ducard discovered his love for creating documentaries, dramas, and comedies with his VHS video camera.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
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Essie Assibu, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
Four months after Missouri’s Cancer Inquiry Advisory Committee met to discuss diagnoses at a Liberty elementary school, the group will meet again next week.
—Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2025
In Pecos, a West Texas oil-field town dotted with man camps, equipment yards, and the occasional roofless adobe structure melting into the scrub, packs of stray dogs congregated by the gas stations and the elementary schools.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025
As an elementary school kid raised in the Bronx, Ducard discovered his love for creating documentaries, dramas, and comedies with his VHS video camera.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
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“Elementary school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elementary%20school. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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