Primary school is a school where people receive primary formal education. It is an important part of basic education and belongs to the category of nine-year compulsory education.
With the development of society, kindergartens have opened in front of it. Generally, 3-6 years old are kindergarten-age children, and 6- 12 years old are primary school-age children. At present, the length of primary education is 6 years (5 years in a few places). After the primary education stage, it is the secondary education stage, that is, from primary school to junior high school (junior high school for short).
On July 5, 2023, the website of the Ministry of Education released the statistical bulletin of national education development in 2022. There are 0/491000 ordinary primary schools and 76,900 primary school teaching points in China. Primary school enrollment17013900; There are 6.6294 million full-time teachers in primary education.
Measures to lighten the burden
According to the CCTV news client, the Ministry of Education held a press conference on August 30th, 2002 to introduce the education and teaching of primary and secondary schools in autumn. In order to effectively reduce students' test pressure, the Ministry of Education issued the Notice on Strengthening the Examination Management in Compulsory Education Schools, which put forward the requirements of accurately grasping the examination function, greatly reducing the number of examinations, rationally using the examination results, and improving the evaluation of the learning process.
The examination in compulsory education stage mainly plays the functions of teaching diagnosis, improving and strengthening teaching and evaluating teaching quality. Except for the junior high school level exam, other exams have no screening and selection function.