U.S. Only: Grammar, Junior High and High School?

[YoungGun21]

For me it was the first option, but just a couple years before me they had the second option. I think 6th grade moved to the junior high maybe 4 or 5 years before.

I do know that quite a while back my town used the third option with the HS only being 10-12.

 

[Spoooon]

Mine was K-6, 7-9. 10-12.

They've since changed it to where 9th grade has its own school. Crazy.

 

[Bryf50]

In NYC it was
Elementary K-5
Intermediate 6-8
High 9-12

Most Private Schools did it
K-8
9-12

And the really exclusive ones went
K-12

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

And the really exclusive ones went
K-12

CSB warning:

In my hometown of Spokane, WA there's a hardcore sedevacantist catholic church called Mount Saint Michael that has K-12 schools for boys and girls (gender segregated, I think). I knew a few people that went there, and one friend who married into a family who's children attended there.

The place is straight out of a horror movie, I kid you not. It's a huge brick compound that looms over the north side of Spokane from the top of a big hill.

/CSB

 

[HopJokey]

K-5, 6-8, 9-12

(Bay Area, California, Public School System)

 

[MotionMan]

K-5, 6-8, 9-12

(Bay Area, California, Public School System)

What city?

MotionMan (<--- Daly City)

 

[TheVrolok]

CSB warning:

In my hometown of Spokane, WA there's a hardcore sedevacantist catholic church called Mount Saint Michael that has K-12 schools for boys and girls (gender segregated, I think). I knew a few people that went there, and one friend who married into a family who's children attended there.

The place is straight out of a horror movie, I kid you not. It's a huge brick compound that looms over the north side of Spokane from the top of a big hill.

/CSB

Awesome looking building.

 

[novasatori]

k-5
6-8
9-12

but now I think my old school system is
k-6
7&8
9
10-12

 

[JTsyo]

The year after I went to 6th, they moved 6th to middle school. This was NYC public schools.

 

[AstroManLuca]

K-6 (elementary school), 7-9 (junior high), 10-12 (high school)

There was also a 5th and 6th grade school attached to the junior high school that some students went to. I went for 5th grade and hated it so I went back to my old elementary school for 6th.

 

[sactoking]

Elementary K-8
High School 9-12

Where I'm at now they have:
Elementary K-5
Middle 6-9
High School 10-12

That's just stupid. First of all "Middle School" should never include 9th grade. "Middle School" should be 6-8 or 7-8; if it includes 9 it is "Junior High". Secondly, there should be no such thing as a "Junior High" or any segregation of 9th grade. 9th-graders are freshmen and low people on the high school food chain. By segregating them into Junior High schools you take what should be the year of humbling and make it a year where they're the big kids on campus. If there's one solid reason why kids these days are horrible people it's because these damn "Junior High" schools have spoiled them.

 

[mcurphy]

When I grew up it was K-6, 7-8, 9-12.

My children's school is divided K-4, 5-8, 9-12

 

[nageov3t]

Elementary K-8
High School 9-12

Where I'm at now they have:
Elementary K-5
Middle 6-9
High School 10-12

That's just stupid. First of all "Middle School" should never include 9th grade. "Middle School" should be 6-8 or 7-8; if it includes 9 it is "Junior High". Secondly, there should be no such thing as a "Junior High" or any segregation of 9th grade. 9th-graders are freshmen and low people on the high school food chain. By segregating them into Junior High schools you take what should be the year of humbling and make it a year where they're the big kids on campus. If there's one solid reason why kids these days are horrible people it's because these damn "Junior High" schools have spoiled them.

what's the difference between being the big kids on campus in 8th grade and bottom of the totem poll in 9th, versus being the big kids on campus in 9th grade and bottom of the totem poll in 10th?

that said... every private high school I know treats it as a 4 year program. there's a pretty natural transition between leaving public junior high and starting private high school when all your friends are transitioning to a new school as well.

 

[oogabooga]

The difference socially between being a 6th grader at a K-6 vs. 6-8 must be huge.

Same with a 9th grader going to 7-9 vs. 9-12 (Imagine your Freshmen year as the oldest at the school instead of the youngest).

MotionMan

Yea, I imagine it was pretty big, although all told I don't think it ended up being that big of a deal. The kids who were there had an edge for maybe the first month or two, but everyone settles in. They didn't have a leg up over the long run. And I probably had a lot more fun not going to middle school as a 6th grader (though now it's not an option and everyone has to).

In high school there was a similar program that very few people took advantage of where you could take classes at a nearby JC for college credit. Generally if you were advanced enough to have gone through most of the AP classes, you could then take higher level classes in math, science, etc at the JC and take a few classes still at the high school (english, electives, stuff like that). I would imagine that was a bigger change.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Awesome looking building.

It really is. The interior of the chapel inside it is pretty off the hook as well.

 

[cronos]

9th-graders are freshmen and low people on the high school food chain. By segregating them into Junior High schools you take what should be the year of humbling and make it a year where they're the big kids on campus. If there's one solid reason why kids these days are horrible people it's because these damn "Junior High" schools have spoiled them.

That doesn't make any sense. If their school system is setup for 7-9 (middle/junior high) and then 10-12 (high school) than the ninth graders *are* the big kids on campus. This has nothing whatsoever to do with spoiling them.

Anyway, around here right now (WI) is:
K-5 (Elementary)
6-8 (Middle school)
9-12 (High school)

When I went to school way back (just for info, as this wasn't in the US so it doesn't really count):
K(A+B) yes I had two years of kindergarten
1-6 (Elementary)
7-9 (Junior High)
10-12 (High School)

 

[nageov3t]

It really is. The interior of the chapel inside it is pretty off the hook as well.

that looks pretty ghetto, tbh. I don't think they love Jesus enough.

 

[sactoking]

what's the difference between being the big kids on campus in 8th grade and bottom of the totem poll in 9th, versus being the big kids on campus in 9th grade and bottom of the totem poll in 10th?

Well, at least as it functions here, there is a big difference. In a 9-12 school you're a "freshman", considerably smaller, worse athletically, etc. You get the freshman experience all day.

In a 10-12 school the 9th graders are still "high schoolers", they can play high school sports, etc but they're not on campus. The freshmen get none of the crap they 'deserve' since the bigger kids never see them. When they join the campus for 10th grade they're sophomores, on junior varsity teams, etc. In 10-12 schools the 10th graders aren't really the bottom of the pecking order; they know there's someone lower they've just been isolated.

By 'protecting' them you just make them weak!

 

[Schadenfroh]

Elementary: k-6
JH: 7-9 (9th being a fuzzy area)
HS: 10-12

 

[Avalon]

Public School, Brevard County, Florida. It went K-6, then 7th-8th, then 9th-12th. I knew of other schools in the area that did 7th-9th, and 10th-12th for high school. I think they might have actually been transitioning into a 7th-8th system for those schools.

 

[Anubis]

glad i went to a high school where there was no "freshmen experience"

 

[nanette1985]

me, tiny farm town before consolidation:
1-12, no kindy. One building, big kids upstairs. Several grades combined if there weren't many students at that age.

my kids, wealthy suburb:
K-5
6-8
9-12

 

[DivideBYZero]

Primary, Secondary.

I refuse to adhere to your rules.

 

[cronos]

Well, at least as it functions here, there is a big difference. In a 9-12 school you're a "freshman", considerably smaller, worse athletically, etc. You get the freshman experience all day.

In a 10-12 school the 9th graders are still "high schoolers", they can play high school sports, etc but they're not on campus. The freshmen get none of the crap they 'deserve' since the bigger kids never see them. When they join the campus for 10th grade they're sophomores, on junior varsity teams, etc. In 10-12 schools the 10th graders aren't really the bottom of the pecking order; they know there's someone lower they've just been isolated.

By 'protecting' them you just make them weak!

Well that's messed up then. When I was in school, as I mentioned above, it was 7-9 and 10-12, but those are two different schools and we got the full blown 'freshman experience' at 10th grade.

This was in the mid-to-late 80s so you bet there was hazing involved. A lot of it.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Growing up in Mpls., there was overlap.
K-6 Elementary School
7-9 Junior High
9-12 High School
None of the schools were allowed to get bigger than AAA. If the population grew larger in a particular area, kids were either bussed or another school was opened.