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[Anonymous]

Hi,
Please check if these expressions are proper?
1. She is an elementary.
2. She is a middle school freshman/sophomore(/junior/senior ???).
3. She is a high school freshman/sophomore/junior/senior.
4. She is a junior high school freshman/sophomore(/junior/senior ???).
5. She is a senior high school freshman/sophomore(/junior/senior ???).
6. She is in the first/second/third grade of senior high school.
7. She is a first/second/third grader in/at/of senior high school.
Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous]

Are there any other expressions?
If so, let me know please!

[Pete]

>Please check if these expressions are proper?
>
>Are there any other expressions?
>If so, let me know please
>...

-- Let me qualify this by saying that I'm answering in the context of American school systems. Even here, the systems vary widely. Each school district (city, county) can divide its schools into grades as they want. Schools usually begin with kindergarten at age 5 and then have 12 years of school called grades one through 12, divided in various ways.

Individual schools may well have their own local terms for the various grade levels that comprise them.

1. She is an elementary school student.
- She is a student in elementary school.
- She goes to elementary school.
-- Also used, but probably not so common, is "primary school",
2. She is a middle school freshman/sophomore(/junior/senior ???).
-- I don't think these terms are common in middle school, which typically covers grades 6, 7, and 8. A student is called, for example, a "seventh grader", a "seventh grade student".
3. She is a high school freshman/sophomore/junior/senior.
-- These terms are common, and are used for grades 9 through 12 respectively. Terms like "eleventh grader" are used interchangeably.
4. She is a junior high school freshman/sophomore(/junior/senior ???).
-- I don't think these terms are common to junior high school, which typically covers grades 7, 8, and 9. A student is typically called, for example, a "ninth grader".
5. She is a senior high school freshman/sophomore(/junior/senior ???).
-- If a school system has a junior high for grades 7 - 9 and a senior high for grades 10 - 12, the senior high probably uses the terms sophomore, junior, and senior interchangeably with "tenth grader", "eleventh grader", and "twelfth grader".
6. She is in the first/second/third grade of senior high school.
-- I don't think these are common. You could say,
- She is in the first/second/third year of senior high school.
7. She is a first/second/third grader in/at/of senior high school.
-- This doesn't sound natural to me at all.