Who is in a school district where 5th grade is NOT elementary school?

[Cinderella2004]

We have:

Primary- K&1
Elementary 2-4
Middle 5-8
High School 9-12

My DD is in second grade. She had a tough time adjusting to the new school. Her school now is all about business. I wish that our district was able to keep them in the primary building for 1 more year, but because of community growth, that was just impossible.

 

[golfgal]

Our district is a little confusing right now because our buildings are all in transition (just built a new high school and are converting the old high school to the middle school). The buildings are set up where K, 5,6 are in one building, 1-2 in another building, 3-4 in another building 7-8 in another building and 9-12 at the new high school. The administration is set up for K-4 as elementary, 5-8 as middle school and 9-12 as high school which is the way the schools will be set up after the middle school conversion is done for next fall.

 

[poohandwendy]

Ours is :
K-4 (Elementary)
5-8 (Middle)
9-12 (HS)

Most parents are really nervous about the 5th transition to middle school and it is usually not a problem at all.

 

[castleview]

In a few years we will have a 9th grade academy to help the transition from Middle to High.

Freshman only. What teacher in their right mind will want to work there?

 

[Sparx]

Schools are k-5 here, then 6-8, then 9-12.

same way here.

althought the different teachers is done from 2-5 grade in elementary.

 

[AmazingGrace]

In Ocean Springs, it was k-4, then the 5th graders had their own school, then 6-8 is middle school. Here in Selma, it's k-5, then 6-8 then high school.

 

[buddy&wooz]

Ours is split due to space issues. Used to be K-8 and a HS till the mid-80's. Got crowded so the HS kids began going to a regional HS and the other grades were split K-5 in the elementary, 6-8 in the middle school (former HS.) It got more crowded, so 5th, then 4th, moved into the middle school. For a few years they really didn't know what to do, the set up for 4th & 5th grades was a mash-up between an elementary and middle-school set up.

Now we have a new wing on our MS just for grades 4-5, and it's more like an elementary school (most of the day they stay with the same teacher.) So it's now K-3, 4-5, 6-8, and HS. I like this set up.

 

[scoutsmom99]

My district is:

Elementry K-5 (in 5th grade we changed teachers for Math and English)
Middle/Junior High School 6-8
Senior High School 9-12

Our distrcit has:
6 Elementry Schools
3 Middle/Junior High Schools (2 feeder Elementry schools go to each)
2 Senior High Schools (1 middle school to each high school and the last middle school is split in half based on where the student lives and then they go to the approptiate high school).

 

[ClarabelleCowFan]

Most of the schools in our district are K-5 BUT not ours! The elementary school in our neighborhood (one of the best in the county) goes K-4 then the middle schools go 5-8 and the high school is 9-12. My oldest daughter is in a magnet middle school (thank goodness) and my youngest daughter is in 1st grade at the neighborhood elementary school.

They are trying to bring 5th grade back to our school though. I hope that goes thru before DD7 gets to that age!

 

[poohtown]

k - 3 = elementary school

4 - 6 = intermediate school

7 - 8 = jr. high school

9 - 12 = high school

 

[Lil_Tink]

Well my old one was
k-6,7-9,10-12

But my new one is
prek-5
6-8
9-12

 

[mum4jenn]

Freshman only. What teacher in their right mind will want to work there?

Part of the reason is to help the overcrowding at the High School. Our county is growins so fast they can't keep up. The elem school I work at is in the process of working with the arch. and bidding starts in the spring for a school to replace ours and then when we get moved in they will refurbish the old school and move the 9th graders in there. The county next to our have already done something like this with their 8th graders only they still house them in the same building as the other grades but try to keep all kind of isolated from the other grades. Yjeu are hoping specialized attention to that grade will reduce the ones that quit at that age.

 

[Pin Wizard]

Here 5th grade is considered middle school. DS's current private school treats 5th graders like they're from another planet in my opinion. Pre-k through 4th in one building, 5th graders out by themselves in mobiles and 6-8 in a separate building.

DS's former private school in FL had pre-K through 4th grade in one building, 5th through 8th in another.

Where I grew up, the public middle school was 5th through 8th. But I was in a private school which was 1st through 8th.

 

[Maude4Disney]

We have K-3 (elementary) 4-5 (upper elementary) 6-8 (middle school) and 9-12 (high school) and we're from a pretty small town, but our district is pretty rural and includes a couple of other smaller towns. Our upper elementary have 2 teachers for the core subjects.

 

[mbw12]

In our district, K-4 is elementary school, 5-8 is middle school, and 9-12 is high school.

 

[JESW]

In our town pre-school thru Grade 3 is in the elementary school. 4th - 7th is at the middle school and 8th - 12th is at the high school.

Jill

 

[cruisnfamily]

Schools are k-5 here, then 6-8, then 9-12.