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The Education System
Although there is not a one-and-only possible path from preschool to college in the USA, here’s what a typical one looks like.
Very young children often go to a preschool, usually at the age of 3. They spend two years there. Then, before the first grade, at the age of five, they go kindergarten, which is the first stage of elementary education.
There are three levels of schools: elementary, middle and high.
In the USA each year at school is called a grade. There are twelve grades.
Most children start elementary school at the age of 6. Elementary school is sometimes called grade school. Most children are at elementary school from grade 1 to grade 6.
Then they go to middle school or junior high school. They usually spend two years there, grade 7 and 8.
Next, they go to high school where they spend four years (grades 9-12).
There are even special names for the students of each grade in high school:
So, the students in the ninth grade are called freshmen.
The students in the tenth grade are called sophomores.
The students in the eleventh grade are called juniors.
The students in the twelfth grade are called seniors.
The same names are used at college where they can go after high school.
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