Primary school is a school where people receive primary formal education. It is an important part of basic education and belongs to nine-year compulsory education.

With the development of society, kindergartens have opened in front of it. Generally, children aged 6- 12 are of primary school age, and the length of primary school education at this stage is 6 years (or 5 years in a few places). After the primary education stage, it is the secondary education stage, that is, from primary school to junior high school (junior high school for short).

Development:

20 17 years * *, ordinary primary schools 18 1 10,000, a decrease of 0.3 million over the previous year. The national primary school enrollment was17.526 million, an increase of 235,000 over the previous year, with an increase of1.5%; Among them, urban primary schools enrolled 7.653 million students, an increase of 440,000, an increase of 9.3%. The number of primary school students was 9,965,438+3,000, an increase of 2.208 million or 2.3%.

In 2020, there will be158,000 ordinary primary schools in China. Pupils 18080900, students 107253500. There are 6,434,200 full-time primary school teachers. The net enrollment rate of primary school-age children is 99.96%.