elementary school

NOUN

primary school

Synonyms

STRONGEST

grade school grammar school

WEAK

folk school graded school junior school

Example Sentences

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The Iran World Cup team arrived in Tijuana wearing lapel pins on their jackets acknowledging victims of a Feb. 28 missile strike on an elementary school.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

In elementary school, I was rambunctious and outgoing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

In that bitter January darkness of a Manchester elementary school parking lot, several dozen voters clustered in line beside me to get into the gym just as the polls opened.

From Slate • May 26, 2026

Last year, the Palisades fire destroyed their elementary school, Seven Arrows.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

You definitely have to be when not even one of your close friends from elementary school is in this new, very large middle school.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan