A (or the) lower or junior school.

a primary school.

A preparatory seminary or school.

a school where young children are taught, a first or elementary school; spec. (a) (in the United Kingdom) a school for children between the ages of…

an elementary school for children kept by a dame.

A school or class for small boys. See also petty form, petty school A. 1c. rare. Now historical.

= dame-school n. at dame, n. compounds.

Of the nature of elements or rudiments; rudimentary, introductory. elementary book, elementary writer, one that deals with first principles. elemen…

Originally U.S., now chiefly British. A primary school. Cf. sense A. 9.

British. A (usually privately funded) junior or primary school at which pupils are prepared for secondary or senior school.

a dame school to which children were sent to be looked after and kept out of mischief, rather than to be educated.

(a) in the state educational system, a school for children aged roughly between 7 and 11; a primary school; (b) the lower forms of some fee-paying…

tother school, tother 'un (Public School slang), a preparatory school, a school one attended before one's public school.

= ma'am-school n. at ma'am, n.1 compounds.

A preparatory school.

In the Japanese feudal period, a private elementary school of a kind established originally in the Buddhist temples.

British. = prep school, n. 2.

= prep school, n. 2.