小学校

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 小学校, read しょうがっこう, denotes the school stage for children before middle school.
• Basic usage: It names the school a younger child walks to and an old school building converted into an archive.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• The first stage of compulsory schooling
  • It names the school stage before middle school and modifies its former school building in the second example.