Schools in the USA - How the American School System Works

How the American school system is arranged - elementary, middle and high school - and what a student's day looks like inside it. A printable worksheet goes with the video.

Students compare school systems constantly and usually without the facts, since what they know comes from films. This lays out the American one: how the stages are divided, how long each lasts, what the school day contains, and the parts that surprise learners from other countries.

There is a printable worksheet in the downloads section to go with it, which makes the video a full lesson rather than a filler. It sits naturally next to the videos about schools in Britain and schools around the world, and the three together give a class enough to argue about.