elementary schoolnoun [ C ]
uk/el.ɪˈmen.tər.i ˌskuːl//el.ɪˈmen.t̬ɚ.i ˌskuːl/UK old-fashioned or USB1 a school that provides the first part of a child's education, usually for children between five and eleven years old
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Types of school
- alma mater
- business school
- charter school
- coed
- coeducational
- college
- comprehensive school
- convent school
- faith school
- fee-paying
- finishing school
- graduate school
- grammar school
- high school
- independent school
- infant
- junior school
- madrasa
- parochial school
- single-sex
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Examples from literature
- No elementary school can really afford to miss the opportunity such work holds out.
- Our elementary schools and high schools have increasingly turned out a multitude of girls who could meet these requirements.
- Some two or three years ago it was seriously proposed that marine navigation should be taught in all the elementary schools of a certain maritime county!
- The excessive regard that has always been paid in our elementary schools to neat handwriting and correct spelling is characteristic of the whole Western attitude towards education.
- Whom shall we blame for the shortcomings of our elementary schools?