American schools, both public and private, consist of 12 years of grades basically 8 years of elementary school and 4 years of secondary or high school, although grades 7 and 8, or 7,8 and 9 may be housed together in a middle school or junior high school. In addition, the elementary school offers five-years-olds a year of kindergarten, usually hafl-day sessions, before they have normal instruction in reading and writting in the first grade. In a few states, two years of junior college ( the first two years of higher education) or a vocational school are part of the public school system. Schooling is compulsory in most states to the age of 16.
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