elementary school
noun
: a school including usually the first four to the first eight grades and often a kindergarten
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In 2019, Hardin pleaded guilty to two counts of rape in connection with the 1997 rape of a Rogers elementary school teacher, according to previous reports from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
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Parker Mancino, Arkansas Online, 25 May 2025
Plans call for work to be done at Kimball and Kenyon Woods middle schools and Century Oaks and Glenbrook elementary schools as the district moves sixth-grade classes into middle schools and adds early learning centers at elementary schools, among other changes.
—Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2025
Superintendent Mark Gee told the Statesman last month that the district, now over capacity in two of its three elementary schools, first started looking for a site for a new school in 2015, and in 2018 ran a bond that failed three times.
—Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 21 May 2025
Early artistic talent led Barnett to a specialized elementary school program, where her knack for portraiture clashed with Eurocentric limitations.
—Byron Armstrong, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
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Parker Mancino, Arkansas Online, 25 May 2025
Plans call for work to be done at Kimball and Kenyon Woods middle schools and Century Oaks and Glenbrook elementary schools as the district moves sixth-grade classes into middle schools and adds early learning centers at elementary schools, among other changes.
—Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2025
Superintendent Mark Gee told the Statesman last month that the district, now over capacity in two of its three elementary schools, first started looking for a site for a new school in 2015, and in 2018 ran a bond that failed three times.
—Rose Evans, Idaho Statesman, 21 May 2025
Early artistic talent led Barnett to a specialized elementary school program, where her knack for portraiture clashed with Eurocentric limitations.
—Byron Armstrong, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
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“Elementary school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elementary%20school. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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