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First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 [1] A high school building in Argos, Greece. A school is the educational institution (and, in the case of in-person learning, the building) designed to provide learning environments for the teaching of students, usually under the direction of teachers.
A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, [1] Australia, [2] New Zealand, [3] Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore [4]), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age).
This was the first public high school in the United States. Seven years later, a state law in Massachusetts made all grades of public school open to all pupils, free of charge. [8] However, in the slave-owning states, things were different. Generally public schooling in rural areas did not extend beyond the elementary grades for either whites ...
Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut, U.S.. A secondary school or high school is an institution that provides secondary education.Some secondary schools provide both lower secondary education (ages 11 to 14) and upper secondary education (ages 14 to 18), i.e., both levels 2 and 3 of the ISCED scale, but these can also be provided in separate schools.
School children in primary education, Chile Total net enrollment rate in primary education, 2015 [1] Primary education is the first stage of formal education, coming after preschool/kindergarten and before secondary education. [2]
Intermediate school is an uncommon term, and can either be a synonym for middle school (notably as used by the New York City public schools) or for schools that encompass the latter years of elementary education prior to middle school/junior high school, serving grades 3 or 4 through 5 or 6. These can also be called 'upper elementary' schools.
A school district is a special-purpose district that operates local public primary or secondary schools or both in various countries. It is not to be confused with an attendance zone, which is within a school district and is used to assign students to schools in a district and not to determine government authority.
A college-preparatory school (usually shortened to preparatory school or prep school) is a type of secondary school. The term refers to public , private independent or parochial schools primarily designed to prepare students for higher education .