Some US schools have 3 years of junior high school and 3 years of senior
high school.
Chuck Norcutt
Fernando Gonzalez Gentile wrote:
> Thanks for clarifying Chuck, now I understand it better.
> To add for my lack of understanding, here we don't name as 'grades'
> the years corresponding to Primary or High School. Those are simply
> 'years'. The word 'grade' appears at University (third level
> education), and is used only for those who pursue teaching at the
> University. If not, you still count 'years', not 'grades'-
>
> Funny thing, here the equivalent to junior high lasts four years, and
> last two years are the equivalent to high school, which have specific
> orientation in reference to which third level does a pupil plan to
> pursue. My daughter has just finished her fourth year (and did very
> very very well :-) ) - and if facing the dilemma of her last two
> years.
>
> Fernando.
>
> 2009/11/26 Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> You forgot to answer the question. Grade 5 education in the US means
>> 5th year of primary (elementary) school. Schooling is usually divided
>> into 6 years of elementary school, 2 years of middle (junior high)
>> school and 4 years of high school.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
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