Schooling system

#japanese/hai-4/unit-4

Overview §

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• Japan’s schooling system is comprised of three school levels.
• Those levels are: Primary School, Junior High School (or Middle) and High School.
• The end of Junior High School marks Japan’s school leaving age (15 years of age)

Schools’ vocabulary §

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• Primary School is 小学校しょうがっこう
• Junior High / Middle School is 中学校ちゅがっこう
• High School is 高校こうこう
• University is 大学だいがく

高, can actually also be read as たか, a part of 高い, which means high, tall or expensive. This derives from the original Chinese meaning.

You can refer to a student of any of these schools by simply adding 生せい to the end of each school type.

For example: 小学校しょうがっこう生せい, for primary schooler.