Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context schools US English) An elementary school or primary school.
WordNet
n. a school for young children; usually the first 6 or 8 grades [syn: grammar school, elementary school, primary school]
Usage examples of "grade school".
Even if he had paid Rudy back, the two of them had been friends since grade school, and it seemed (looking back) that Larry had always been a dime short for the Saturday matinee because he'd bought some licorice whips or a couple of candy bars on the way over to Rudy's, or borrowing a nickel to round out his school lunch money or getting seven cents to make up carfare.
Where we used to go sledding, off Haggarty by the ravine, in grade school, remember?
His fifth-grade school portrait was no longer in the drawer in the study, and all of the baby pictures were gone from the shoebox.
The route from New Lebanon Grade School to Blackfoot Pond was three miles along 302 (which she was forbidden to walk on) but only a half-hour through the forest, and that was the path she took.
When he was moved, just that September, to the small grade school in the village, the official story was that the school needed upgrading, and Mr.
Everybody who left grade school with me was at the state university now, at least all who went to high school, and most did.
We used to sit on our coats, I remember, on the concrete floor, our backs against the sturdy walls of the basement corridors of my grade school, singing in unison to keep up our morale until the all-clear signal sounded- Johnny Zero.
What I had done was taken one of the pictures of twelve-year-old Mimi, and one of my seventh-grade school pictures, matted them, and framed them side by side in a single frame.