<p>Like grades 7-9, the school before high school. I’m a canadian so i’m not sure if the USA system also calls these years Junior Highs as we do…</p>
<p>Also, in high school, whats grade is “sophomore” and “junior”? i know senior is grade 12.</p>
<p>America has two such names for these schools, depending on location in the country. Often the school from grade 6 to 8 is called a Middle School, while a school that is just 7, 8 or 7 to 9 is called Junior High School. In HS, a sophomore is grade 10, a junior is grade 11, and senior grade 12. Grade 9 is freshman.</p>
<p>middle school, not junior high anymore in US</p>
<p>for international students, cause i was brought through a british system, years 7-13 (years are grades) is called secondary school. and 1-6 is primary… </p>
<p>p.s. the year 13 is cause the british start a year early, so they make up for it by adding another year.</p>
<p>“middle school, not junior high anymore in US”</p>
<p>I do actually know of some schools in the US that are still called “junior high.” Where I am in the midwest, middle school is either 6-8 or 7 and 8, and junior high is 7-9.</p>
<p>Middle school, junior high school and intermediate school terminology are used in California. There is no significant definition for these terms. They just cover the grades between elementary and senior high school, in any combination of grades 6,7,8 or 9.</p>
<p>Some elementary schools are K-5 while others are K-6, and some senior high schools are grades 9-12 while others are grades 10-12.</p>
<p>In between are middle schools, junior high schools and intermediate schools.</p>
<p>I won’t even confuse you further with charter schools, magnet schools, learning academies, learning communities, “small schools” and several other ways people describe public schools in California.</p>
<p>generally, middle schools are grades 6-8, which is the predmoninant structure in Calif – indeed, the state curriculum is designed for 6-8. Junior High is grades 7-9. with a student then matriculating to a ‘senior’ high school, i.e., grades 10-12.</p>
<p>i always thought elementary school was K-3, middle school was 4-6, junior high was 7-8 and high school was 9-12</p>
<p>In Mount Pleasant School District here in Silicon Valley, August Boeger Junior High School covers grades 7-8 because a grade 4-6 intermediate school feeds into it.</p>
<p>The name of the school has little to do with the grades covered.</p>
<p>The physical capacity of the school site, especially with older schools, determines the grades served. Mount Pleasant School District has two K-3 “elementary” schools, one K-4 “elementary” school, a grade 4-6 “intermediate” school and a grade 7-8 “junior high” school.</p>
<p>Oak Grove School District, also in Silicon Valley, has K-6 “elementary” schools that feed into grade 7-8 “intermediate” schools.</p>
<p>In Franklin-McKinley School District, K-6 “elementary” schools feed into grade 7-8 “middle” schools. There are also two K-8 schools.</p>
<p>The point is that there is absolutely no consistency in the way school districts use the terms “middle,” “junior high” or “intermediate.”</p>
<p>The school system I graduated from was orginally K-6: elementary; 7-8: middle; 9-12 high…then my particular school broke up the elementary school to K-3; primary; 4-6: intermediate.</p>
<p>However, terminology varies widely from region to region and even within the same region…no real consensus to it in my experience.</p>
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<p>There are still plenty of Jr. highs left. Many, perhaps most, of what were Jr. high schools back in parents’ day have now changed into middle schools, but there are still enough Jr. High hold outs that the term is not yet obsolete.</p>
<p>Elementary- K-5
Middle- 6-8
High School- 9-12</p>