Kevin Wayne Williams wrote:
> 
> John Yamamoto-Wilson wrote:
> 
> > Eric wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Tell me John, if you caught this one. First paragraph refers to junior
> >
> > high and
> >
> >>senior high. Second paragraph is high school only.
> >
> >
> > I struggle with the language, Eric, and do my best with dictionaries, which
> > assure me that "high school" is the American English term for what we call
> > "secondary school" (= students from 11 to 18). If "high school" does not
> > mean "junior high" and "senior high" combined then, again, I stand
> > corrected, and will kick the dictionary around the room in indignation.
> 
> Start kicking. Different school systems use slightly different
> boundaries. Elementary school runs from kindergarten to either fifth or
> sixth grade. A "middle school" is either sixth, seventh, and eighth
> grade or just seventh and eighth. A "junior high" is seventh, eighth,
> and ninth, or just seventh and eighth. A "high school" is ninth through
> twelfth, or tenth through twelfth. "High school" and "senior high" are
> the same.

To be pedantic: I think I have seen some ninth-grade containing "middle
schools".

-- 
Curt Fischer