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In Japan, junior high schools are called chu gakko (中学校, literally, middle school), and cover years seven through nine.
Taiwanese middle schools (3-year) were originally called junior high school, or chuzhong (初級中學, 初中). However, in August 1968, they were renamed to middle schools, or guozhong (國民中學, 國中) when they become free of charge and compulsory. Private middle school nowadays are still called chuzhong. Taiwanese middle schools are attended normally by those older than twelve. Accompanied with the switch from junior high to middle school was the cancelation of entrance examination needed to enter senior high school.In the United Kingdom, some English Local Education Authorities introduced Middle Schools to cover either Years 4 to 7 (ages 8–12) or Years 5 to 8 (ages 9–13) . However, these arrangements have generally been dropped because the standardisation enforced by the English National Curriculum .
In the United States, middle schools generally include grades 6 to 8 while junior high schools include grades 7 to 9. Many Junior highs are generally built like high schools, whereas the middle school concept often involves " pods", or periods, whereby grade levels are separated and subdivided into different areas, and students change only between five or so classroom s. This is meant as a hybrid, to ease the transition from elementary school to high school for students. Sometimes they are called Intermediate schools, and sometimes intermediate schools go before middle school, and sometimes middle school goes before junior high school.
In Canada, there are sometimes schools for just grade 7 and 8 and they are called senior public schools. The term middle school and junior high school are used for other combinations of grades.