education period

[keannu]

How long is each period for each school in the US. UK. Canada and Austrailia?

Primary school or elementary school
Middle school or junior high school
Secondary school or high school

 

[MikeNewYork]

It is not the same in every district in the US, but in most cases:

Primary school or elementary school: 8 years (9 if kindergarten is included)
Middle school or junior high school: none
Secondary school or high school: 4 years

 

[keannu]

Do you exchange "primary school" with "elementary school"? and same for "secondary school" and "high school"?

So In "elementary school", isn't there any distinction between 5 years of "elementary school" and "middle school" as in Korea?
I have heard of "junior high school" from an American, but it seems to have been for Korean ones.

 

[emsr2d2]

In the UK (well, in England at least), some children go to nursery school (or kindergarten) at the age of 3 or 4. However, they start mainstream school at the age of 5 and their progression through the school system follows this general pattern:

Primary/Infant School - age 5 to 8
Junior School - age 8 to 11
Secondary School - age 11 to 16
Sixth Form College (optional at the moment) - age 16 to 18
University (optional) - age 18 to 21/22

From 2016, all children in the UK will be required to stay in education until the age of 18 (at the moment it's 16) - they will either do A Levels, they can go to technical/vocational college or undertake a type of apprenticeship.

That pattern works for state schools. There are some private schools which have different arrangements - Steiner and Montessori schools are a couple of examples.

 

[Roman55]

How long is each period for each school in the US. UK. Canada and Austrailia?

I am not a teacher.

I misunderstood the original question, whose meaning became clear when I read the answers.

In BrE, a school day is divided into periods which correspond to the time devoted to each activity or class. I thought you were asking about the duration of teaching periods in the different schools you listed.

 

[emsr2d2]

My initial reaction was the same. I was going to point out that when I was at school from the ages of 5 to 12, a "period" (ie the length of one single class in any subject) was 30 minutes, at secondary school it was 45 minutes and at sixth form college, it was an hour. I followed MikeNewYork's example when I answered. Perhaps the OP could clarify what he/she meant.

 

[keannu]

I'm sorry for my unintended mistake for "period", which I initially meant for the term(years) of each school.
It seems UK and the US have quite different school years. No junior school or infant school is found in the US, and their secondary school's term is not that long, either.

 

[konungursvia]

The Finns have discovered that no one learns anything really until age 7, academically. What we learn before then is really just socio-affective.

 

[SoothingDave]

It is not the same in every district in the US, but in most cases:

Primary school or elementary school: 8 years (9 if kindergarten is included)
Middle school or junior high school: none
Secondary school or high school: 4 years

I wouldn't say that was "most cases" around here. Only Catholic schools here have only elementary (K-8) and high schools (9-12).

Public schools generally have either junior high or middle schools.

Middle schools are generally 6-8 grades, where junior highs are 7-9.

 

[Barb_D]

Junior high was 7&8 when I went to school, and high school was 9-12.

Now my old junior high school is a middle school for 6-8.

 

[keannu]

I found this table on the internet, which was kind of confusing.
Are elementary school and middle school separated by different buildings or are the both located in the same site?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_United_States


Diagram of education in the United States

 

[MikeNewYork]

Good chart. In the US, your question would depend on the available facilities. The reason to split elementary school from middle school or junior high school often depended on room for students.

 

[SoothingDave]

Middle schools are typically a separate building. But at least one local district has them all in the same building, but the areas are kept segregated.