Seventh grade

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Seventh grade (called Grade 7 in some regions) is a year of education in America and many other nations. The seventh grade is the seventh school year after kindergarten. Students are usually 12–13 years old, but sometimes as old as 16. Traditionally, seventh grade was the next-to-last year of elementary school. In the United States and Canada, however, it is now usually part of middle school.

In the United States, in mathematics, students focus commonly on an introduction to pre-algebra or algebra I, including ratio, proportion, percent. New topics sometimes include scientific notation, concepts with negative numbers, and more advanced geometry. In social studies, advanced pre-Civil War American History is taught and in science, it is usually moderate level biology. In some parts of the United States, seventh grade is the first school grade in which students have different teachers for each of their subjects, and so they change classrooms at the end of the period.

In some states of Australia including Victoria, NSW, ACT and Tasmania Year 7 is the first year of high school but, it is the 8th Year of Schooling (Prep, 1 - 6 then Year 7).

Preceded by Sixth grade

Seventh grade 12–13

Succeeded by Eighth grade

Its English equivalent is Year 8, the second year of secondary education.