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-{{mergeto|primary school|date= July 2017}}
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-[[File:Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.jpg|thumb|A Shōgakkō or elementary school class in [[Japan]]]]
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-[[File:ZŠ Višňové.JPG|thumb|Elementary school in [[Višňové, Žilina District|Višňové]] ([[Slovakia]]).]]
-{{see also|Primary school}}
-'''Elementary school''' is a [[school]] for [[student]]s in their first school years, where they get [[primary education]] before they enter [[secondary education]]. The exact ages vary by country. In the United States, elementary schools usually have 6 grades with pupils aged between 6 and 12, but the age ranges 6 to 10 and 6 to 14 also exist.<ref>[http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2002/2002130.pdf ], p. 7, fig. 1</ref> In Japan, the age of pupils in elementary school ranges from 6 to 12, after which the pupils enter [[Middle_school#Japan|junior high school]].
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-Elementary school is usually only one part of [[compulsory education]], especially in Western countries.
+[[Category:Primary education|School]]
-==Examples==
-(Scotland) leave nursery age 4 and start primary school for the next 7 years which would be primary 1 (age 4 to 5) and so on until primary 7 which would be the last year at primary school at age (9 to 10) then after that off to high school at age 11 to 12
-* [[Elementary school (England and Wales)]] First established in 1870, most of these schools were converted into [[Primary school]]s during the late 1940s<ref name="Gutek1994">{{cite book|author=Gerald L. Gutek|title=A History of the Western Educational Experience: Second Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Db35CQAAQBAJ&pg=PA203|accessdate=12 August 2017|date=14 December 1994|publisher=Waveland Press|isbn=978-1-4786-3010-4|page=203}}</ref>
-* [[Elementary school (United States)]], where there are currently some 92,858 elementary schools (68,173 public, 24,685 private)<ref name="NCES">{{cite news|url=http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2002/2002130.pdf |title=Digest of Education Statistics, 2001 |format=PDF |date= |agency=National Center for Education Statistics| accessdate=12 August 2017}}</ref>
-* [[Elementary schools in Japan]]. First established by 1875.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Establishment of Elementary Schools and Attendance|url=http://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/hakusho/html/others/detail/1317264.htm|website=JAPAN'S MODERN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM|publisher=Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan|accessdate=12 August 2017}}</ref>
-==References==
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-==External links==
-* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110116125625/http://nces.ed.gov/ National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) (United States)]
-* [http://elementaryschools.org/ Elementary Schools with Education and Crime Statistics (United States)]
-==See also==
-{{Portal|Schools}}
-* [[Educational stage]]
-* [[Primary school]]
-* [[Grammar school]]
-{{Schools}}
-{{Human development}}
-{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2011}}
-[[Category:Primary education]]
-[[Category:Elementary and primary schools| ]]
-[[Category:History of education]]
 [[Category:School terminology]]
 [[Category:School types]]
-[[Category:Educational stages]]