I believe up until like the 1960s, most "middle schools" (junior high) went up to 9th grade, so they may actually have been what today would be high schoolers.
Depended on the area and schools. One room schools were still around at that time too and my Grandmother taught 1st through high school in it not far from there at that time (and the school is engraved on a US quarter) . But for larger schools they separated them in different ways in different areas. Mostly k-5/6/7 then 6/7-8 / 9 and then 6/7/8/9/10-12. Mine in the 80s switched between high school being 10-12 into 9-12. Really pissed off the 10th graders and gave the 11th & 12th graders 2 grades to mercilessly haze instead of just the 10th graders. the 10th graders felt they lost some hazing ability for us younger ones lol.
Where I live, elementary is K-4, middle school is 5-7, and high school is 8-12. Never seen it before, but I suspect it’s a result of population quirks and building capacity.
Depends on so much! Small Midwest school, first building was k-1 elementary was 2-6, jr and we high in same building but jr high is 7–8 and hs was 9-12
Not many but not few back then. Funny thing.. one of my girlfriends from college was in one with k-10 in the 80s. Town population ~300 with many mennonite home schoolers in the district. Her graduating class was 5.
I graduated in 1980 also. 9th grade (freshman) 10th grade (sophomore) 11th grade (junior) and 12th grade (senior)... It must depend on the state maybe? Middle school was 6 - 8 and grade school was K - 5th. I live in New York.
My junior high was 7th-9th and I graduated in 2001. The only freshman experience I had was running on the high school cross country team a year before I went to that school.
Huh, they're still doing that where I grew up. I graduated in 98 and as far as I know Jr. High is still 7,8,9 and High School is 10, 11, 12. I just figured it was a space constraint, not that it was purposeful. But it was definitely called Jr. High, not middle school.
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u/AxelShoes Aug 17 '24
I believe up until like the 1960s, most "middle schools" (junior high) went up to 9th grade, so they may actually have been what today would be high schoolers.