Quote Originally Posted by zxc View Post
"Grade" is used for elementary, middle, and high schools.

For high school, you can alternatively say that someone is a freshman (9th grade), sophomore (10th grade), junior (11th grade), or senior (12th grade), or you can say that they are "in their freshman year", "in their sophomore year", etc.

And then it gets confusing because these also cross over to someone's undergraduate studies in college (someone in their first year of college/university is also a "freshman", et al).
Thank you, zxc. Can you answer one more question, please? I know that marks that students get in American schools are called grades, too. How do people manage to avoid confusion calling both forms and marks with one word?