grade school

noun

grade-schooler noun

Examples of grade school in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Chester Gordon Bell was born on Aug. 19, 1934, in Kirksville, Mo., to Chester Bell, an electrician who owned an appliance store, and Lola (Gordon) Bell, who taught grade school. Glenn Rifkin, New York Times, 21 May 2024 Her parents also bought into her Olympic dreams, looking past the toll Kang’s pushing swimmers through as many as 40 hours of training a week had on their daughter and her teenage and pre-teen teammates, some still in grade school. Scott M. Reid, Orange County Register, 18 May 2024 He was born in Guangdong Province in China, moved to Chicago at 11 years old with his father, and grew up in Bridgeport, but went to grade school in Chinatown. Louisa Kung Liu Chu, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2024 The fight involved a group of women who punched and slapped another screaming woman lying on the ground at DCA’s Pixar Pier as grade school children stood by and watched, according to an online video posted by Instagram user 714 Layla. Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 30 Apr. 2024 The two former grade school classmates reconnected in the fall of 2017 and married in 2020, with Gettelfinger becoming stepmom to his two middle school-age children. Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 23 Apr. 2024 Using assessments to grade school quality is also often criticized because scores often resemble a measure of poverty. Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press, 23 Apr. 2024 His reelection team is framing this year’s race in a similar way, releasing a video that calls for promoting the middle class and features interviews with his cousin, a grade school classmate and a county commissioner. Chris Megerian, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2024 In August 2020, during the heart of the covid-19 pandemic when many schools were closed, social media and news outlets were awash with a picture of two grade school students sitting outside of a Taco Bell, attempting to do their schoolwork. Gigi Sohn, The Verge, 5 Apr. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1869, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of grade school was in 1869

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“Grade school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grade%20school. Accessed 28 May. 2024.

Kids Definition

grade school

noun
: a public school including the first six or the first eight grades

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