primary school

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Types of school
academy
alma mater
alternative school
business school
centre of excellence
charter school
coeducational
convent school
grade school
grant-maintained school
prep school
preparatory school
private
private school
reform school
reformatory
secondary school
selective
seminary
special school

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? 

elementary school | American Dictionary

elementary school
noun[ C ]
us/ˌel·əˈmen·tri ˌskul, -ˈmen·tə·ri/(alsograde school); (primary school); (datedgrammar school)
a school that provides the first part of a child’s education, usually for children between five and eleven years old

Examples of elementary school

elementary school
In elementaryschool children, iconographic rating scales (smiley scales) have been found quite useful.
A two-year longitudinal study of neuropsychological and cognitive performance in relation to behavioral problems and social competencies in elementaryschool children.
Aggressive behavior and peer social status of elementaryschool children.
It is possible that studies exploring the transition from elementaryschool to middle school might similarly find increases in borderline features, particularly among girls.
Secondary school teaching rapidly became a graduate profession, while interwar elementaryschool teaching moved quite rapidly in that direction.
This study explores 19 elementaryschool children's responses to and interpretations of eight picture books with metafictive devices.
This article presents a case study of an elementaryschool situated within a prestigious school district that has undergone rapid demographic change in recent years.
It seems that only elicited production will detect a morphological deficit, at least in elementaryschool children.
It is possible that children will continue to have difficulty with the use of some prepositions even into the early elementaryschool years.
This effort focused on reducing aggression, including violent acts among elementaryschool students.
This variable identifies those subjects who were maltreated only during the elementaryschool age period, between ages 6 and 11 years.
It appears that this sample of urban elementaryschool children experiences growth in several processes that place them at risk for future aggression and violence.
The elementaryschool, up to 8th grade, is attended by 45 students, while high school instruction is offered to about 120 students.
Disruptive boys with stable and unstable high fighting behavior patterns during junior elementaryschool.
Prediction of elementaryschool children's externalizing problem behaviors from attentional and behavioral regulation and negative emotionality.
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