How much schooling have you had, and what do you call your various school years - e.g. grade school and high school? Middle school? Wherever in the world you are - please explain a bit about your schooling system.

I finished 7 of 11 grades in Russia where schools weren’t divided into age-related portions. When I moved to the US, I went to some middle school followed by high school through grade 12. I went to college for four years for a BA degree and then to graduate school for two years for a Master’s degree. I am now in a PhD program that should last around 5–7 years. I never went to pre-school or kindergarten.

Thanks Doctor Simone. :-) Good luck with the studies.

@zen Thanks!

I went to pre-school, pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, elementary school (grades 1–5), middle school (grades 6–8), high school (grades 9–12), college (4 years, freshman, sophomore, junior senior) then graduate school (not going to say how long it took; more than some, less than others) finishing with a master’s degree.

Elementary school was from kindergarten to 5th grade. Middle school was 6th-8th grade and high school was 9th-12th grade. Only in high school did we have “names” (freshmen, sophomore, junior, senior). I think that’s how most of our schools are divided up in California.

I went to elementary school from 1996–2002. It was Kindergarten through 5th grade. After that, I went to middle school from 2002–2005; that was 6th through 8th grade. Then I went to high school from 2005–2009; that was 9th through 12th grade. Since then I’ve completed 2 years of undergraduate study. :)

Like @Vunessuh, I’m from California and that seems to be how schools work here, though I went to elementary school in Nevada.

I went to primary school for 8 years. I started at age 3 in Kindergarten, then Prep, then years/grades 1 to 6. Then high school (at a different school) was from years 7 to 12. Sometimes years 11 and 12 are called “matrick” (matriculation) but really only my parents and older people say that anymore, it’s all just high school. We don’t use the words “freshman” or anything like that at all. Then I started university and will be here for 4 years. We don’t say college- to us a college is an on campus uni residence hall.

After I left my school, they changed everything and now primary school is up until year 4, middle school is years 5 to 8 and high school is 9 to 12. I’m not really sure why, but that’s how our brother school was set up so maybe that just wanted to copy.

Either of these are the basic formats for Australian schools. Some have “ELC” – early learning centres, or pre-school, some don’t. I started a year younger than most people in my grade, I think I just made the age cut-off, so I skipped pre-school and went straight to kindergarten. I think now kids start kindergarten or prep a lot later because they do pre-school first.

I went to nursery school, kindergarten, then 1st through 6th elementary school, 7th and 8th grade intermediate school and a four year high school. Then off to a 4 year university.

My kids went to a K through 5 elementary, then a 6th through 8th Middle School before a 4 year high school.

Elementary school: six years (K – 5)
Middle school: three years (6 – 8)
High school: four years (9 – 12)
Conservatory: four years

I’ll probably go back for a Master’s degree soon, which will be another two years.

Elementary school – 6 years
Junior High – 2 years
High School – 4 years
College – Well… let’s just say I was on the decade plan…
Post Graduate School – One year but decide the time was better spend earning a living.

Eight calibered educational institutional , 5 continents… I’ve attended Catholic schools in Muslim countries, international schools in fundamentalist enviroments, liberal Quaker schools in conservative “Red” states…
In the end, I think Twain had it right… when he said: ”...never let schooling get in the way of your education!”

Are you deliberately recycling old questions? I attended the standard K – 12, and then several years of college. I received an AA degree.

Kindergarten
Elementary school – 6 yrs
High School – 5 yrs
Languages – 2 yrs
University – BA 5 yrs
Post Graduate School – Specialization studies 2.5 yrs.– Master’s 2 yrs
Working on PhD.

Grammar School, grades 1–8
High School, grades 9–12
College, 3.5 years for a B.A.
Law School, 3.5 years for a Juris Doctor

USA

Pre-School (2–3 years)
Elementary School (7 years)
Middle School (2 years)
Highschool (4 years)
College (4 years)

I am in the US.

I went to nursery school beginning around age 2.5 either 2 or 3 days a week for three hours per day I think.

Started Kindergarten at age 4 in the elementary school. I was in Elementary through 6th grade

Jr. High grades 7–9 (but 9 technically was the beginning of high school and your 9th grade year was calculated into your total High School GPA.

High School grades 10–12 (again 9th grade is high school also, but was not housed in the high school). I actually finished a semester early and started attending the local community college.

Jr. College AKA Commuity College for a year and a half part time, then transferred to a university.

At my university I earned a BA in Marketing.

That’s it.

From age 3–8, I attended an all-Deaf K-8 day school in Alabama.
They closed and put all the Deaf kids in an “exceptional students center—” My mom wouldn’t go for that so moved to Florida.
I was mainstreamed/included in a regular classroom from 3rd grade through 5th in an elementary school, 6th and 7th in a middle school. I skipped 8th grade and went into a 9–12 high school. Halfway through my 11th grade year, I rebelled against being “included,” and moved to an all-Deaf boarding school (loved it!!)
I attended the only all-Deaf university in the world for 2 years, left and attended University of Alabama for 1½ years, then returned to the first university. Graduated with 2 BA’s.
Enrolled into what I was told was a MA program in Montana, but was discriminated against, and only was granted 2 more BA’s, not a MA.
Enrolled into my dream MA program in South Dakota, but had to move. Enrolled unwillingly into another MA program (job required it) and will finish this March. Ptooey!
My PhD applications are ready to go out this fall.

@linguaphile You seem to take the easy way out with everything.

Good luck with the Doctorate – I hope you are enjoying the studies and not thinking too much about the runaround you’ve consistently been given.

@zen shrug You asked the question, and I answered. I almost didn’t because I knew mine was weird, but what the heck. I love school—and I love the fact that I can bring information from at least 7 different disciplines into my classroom. I plan to integrate information from those disciplines when I work on my PhD.
I don’t think much about the runaround—I see it as part of my journey, for whatever reason. :D Thanks for the good wishes!

I think it’s amazing that you have accomplished so much.

@zen Oo-wee! Lookie what I found after I sent the PM… Did a wise man say, “Accept misfortune as a blessing. Do not wish for perfect health, or a life without problems. What would you talk about?”

When I went to school in Los Angeles, CA, starting in September, 1955:

Grades 1–6: elementary school.
” 7–9: junior high school
” 10–12: high school.

I finished schooling at 16 years old after my GCSE exams. I went to school in the UK and we have Infant School (ages 4–7 ish), Primary school (ages 7–12) and Secondary school (ages 12–16). These are all compulsary. When we leave Secondary school we can go onto Sixth Form or College and the University but those are optional.

I went to “play group” (age 2), pre-school (3–4), kindergarten (which was only half days, age 5), elementary school grades 1–6 (ages 6–11), two years of middle school/junior high, grades 7–8 (12–13), and four years of high school grades 9–12/freshman-senior years (ages 14–17).

I have done, er, one quarter of one year of college. Go me. Ideally that would be ages 18–22 but it’s looking like it’ll be more like 19–23 or 20–24 for me, or possibly 19–24/25 if I have to keep taking a reduced courseload. I sure hope not.

I grew up in Wales, UK. I started Primary School age 4 (having been to “play-school” from 3)... The first year is called Reception, then it was divided into infants (age 5–7) and juniors (7–11), all in the same school. I went to High School (aka Secondary school) aged 11 and stayed there through the compulsory GCSE exams at age 16 and chose to stay on to do A level exams at age 18.

The names of the years changed during my schooling, so that when I went to high school my first year I was known as a “first former”, but then in my second year I was in “year 8” as they decided to continue the yearly count on from primary right through. Years 12 and 13 are the final, non-compulsory years, and are also still known as 6th form (lower and upper). My school had a 6th form as part of it. Not all secondary schools do, as @Leanne1986 says above.

After that I went to University, where I studied a 3 year music degree, which these days all automatically come with honours (providing you get a 2.2 or above I believe). I got a 2.1 in my BMus (batchelors of Music). The highest you can achieve is a 1st, then a 2.1, then a 2.2, then a 3rd. I did this in England. In Scotland, all degree courses (I believe) are 4 years to get the honours… but then again, you don’t pay tuition fees in Scotland if you’re Scottish so who minds the extra year?!

I did a PGCE year afterwards (post graduate certificate in Education).

I’m in Scotland and attended Primary School from age 4. After 4 years I moved on to the ‘Big School’, called a Junior Secondary, and after 3 more years I sat an exam called the ‘Eleven Plus’ which was a general intelligence test given to all pupils which decided whether I would remain at the Junior Secondary with no prospect of getting any qualifications at all or move on to Grammar School. I was fortunate enough to get a place at Grammar School where I spent another 6 years studying for what were then called ‘O’ Levels, for Ordinary, and then Highers before going on to University in Glasgow for another 3 years.