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Originally Posted by Barb_D

In the US, "elementary" or "primary" school is from age 6 to about 12, or kindergarten to fifth or sixth grade.

Junior High is is seventh and eighth grade (usually) while middle school is (usually) sixth, seventh, and eighth.

High school is your final four years: ninth through twelfth grade.

But it can still vary. Sometimes, middle school can include ninth grade.

I personally went to junior high, with only 7th and 8th grades. My daughters will got middle school, with 6th, 7th, and 8th.

I went to junior high, too; it consisted of 7th and 8th grades. (And weren't we all that and a bag of chips back in those days? So very grown up!) Today my former junior high is now a middle school, and goes from sixth to eighth grade.