A primary school in Ireland, a United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, in addition to South Africa, junior school in Australia, elementary school or grade school in North America and a Philippines is a school for primary education of children who are four to twelve years of age. Primary schooling improvement pre-school and precedes secondary schooling.
The ISCED Level 1: Primary education or first stage of basic education.
There are three leading ways of funding a school: it can funded by the state through general taxation, it can be funded by a pressure multinational such as the mosque or the church, it can be funded by a charity or it can be funded by contributions from the parents or a combination of these methods. Day to day oversight of the school can through a board of governors, the pressure group, or the owner.[]
The United Kingdom allowed nearly elementary education to be filed in church schools whereas in France this was illegal as there is strict separation of church and state.