grade school

noun, N. Amer., elementary school (COD)

“I can remember when we were in grade school.”

“That was a couple years when I was younger, and then I played [baseball] in town one year and then that’s what we played all the time at grade school.”

“In grade school, I went to the Village one.”

“Well actually we lived there from when I was born ’til I was ready to go to grade school.”

“I thought they brainwashed us in grade school, to be honest with you, with the religion, so I remember asking my mother one time, ‘what’s coveting the neighbour’s wife?'”

“The school that you went to was right on the Island. It’s a grade school.”

“I mean, when I was in school, there were boys that were as old as fifteen. ’Cause back then if you didn’t pass, you didn’t get to go on like they do now. Until you turned sixteen you had to stay in grade school. And so mostly boys were the ones that had to stay. So there was a couple of older boys in our school, and they were quite the rips.”