Primary school

The first is the "equivalent ages"; then countries that base their education systems on the "English model" use one of two methods to identify the year group; while countries that base their systems on the "American K–12 model" refer to their year groups as "grades".

For example, the province of Ontario also had a "Grade 13", designed to help students enter the workforce or post-secondary education, but this was phased out in the year 2003.

[7][8][9] The term primary school is derived from the French école primaire, which was first used in an English text in 1802.

[23] The building providing the education has to fulfill the needs of: The students, the teachers, the non-teaching support staff, the administrators and the community.

The UK government published this downwardly revised space formula for primary schools in 2014.

[25] There are several main ways of funding a school: by the state through general taxation, by a pressure group such as a mosque or church, by a charity, by contributions from parents, or by a combination of these methods.

This can be through informal assessment by the staff and governors such as in Finland, or by a state run testing regime such as Ofsted in the United Kingdom.