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west bunawan central Elementary schools exist worldwide as the basic foundational institution in the formal
 educational structure. Elementary schooling, which prepares children in fundamental skills and knowledge areas, can
 be defined as the early stages of formal, or organized, education that are prior to secondary school. 
The age
 range of pupils who attend elementary schools in the United States is from six to twelve, thirteen, or
 fourteen, depending on the organizational pattern of the particular state or school district. While a few, mainly
 small rural, districts, retain the traditional pattern of grades one through eight, a more common pattern is grades
 one through six. In most school districts as well as in many teacher preparation programs, elementary education
 is organized into the following levels: primary, which includes kindergarten and grades one, two, and three;
 intermediate, which includes grades four, five, and six; and upper, which includes grades seven and eight.
 A commonly found organizational pattern places grades seven and eight, and sometimes grade six and nine, into middle
 or junior high schools.
 When the middle school and junior high school pattern is followed, 
these institutions are usually linked into secondary education, encompassing grades six through twelve.

In comparing elementary schools in the United States with those of other countries, some distinctions in terminology
 are necessary. In the United States, elementary education refers to children's first formal schooling prior to secondary school.
 (Although kindergartens, enrolling children at age five, are part of public schools,
 attendance is not compulsory.) 
In school systems in many other countries, the term primary covers what in the United States is designated as elementary schooling.
 In American elementary schools, the term primary refers to the first level, namely kindergarten through grades one, two, and three.
sThe elementary school curriculum provides work in the educational basics - reading, writing, arithmetic, an
 introduction to natural and social sciences, health, arts and crafts, and physical education. An important part of
 elementary schooling is socialization with peers and the creating of an identification of the child with the community and nation.