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public grade school

NOUN
common school


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This ABC comedy stars Brunson as a second-grade teacher at Abbott Elementary, a public grade school in an underserved area of Philadelphia.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2022

After graduating, Ms. Ferraro got a job teaching in a public grade school in Queens.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2011

While Nicholas went to a strapped public grade school in a perilous neighborhood, Christopher is in the gifted program of a school she handpicked on the middle- class side of town.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

Not a single black child attended an integrated public grade school in South Carolina, Alabama, or Mississippi as of the 1962–1963 school year.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

When Zoe Penny was still in knee frocks she graduated, first in her class, from the public grade school.

From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie




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