My name is Cindora and a student in the USA can go to school from when they are 3 and older.

Hi Jacob. Some of schools in our country have 2 shifts-the first starts at 8.30 ends at 2 p.m. Second shift starts at 2 p.m. ends at 6 or 7 p.m. in the evening. We end to study in about 25th of May. Before this we pass final tests (ordinary in last months we have wery few lessons), Graduates pass the Unated-State-Exams all of June and have action called Prom in the end of June as you have. They have unated school action called Last Call (of the bell the symbol of beginning of education) in the end of May. After that they have two months of summer to rest and apply to college.

Hi Jacob! We learn in Russia for 11 years. Conversion examinations shall be at the end of grade 9. And in the 11 class-exams. From 5 to 7 classes a day. They last 40 minutes. Saturday and we have raised four holidays: fall (first week of November), winter (the first 10 days of January), spring (last week of March) and summer (June, July and August). On September begins a new academic year.

We have 5-mark system (from one to five)

We have vacations four time a year: Winter Vacation (10 days), Fall vacations (7 days), Spring (10 days), Summer (3 month)

We also have a small vacations for holidays (festivals): usually two or three days.

At place where I live (it called Siberia) we also have unformal vacations - we call it "the cancels". It means that we don't go to school, because it's too cold for studying. I'm in class 8th and we won't go to school if the temperature is lower than 35 degrees below zero. Unfortunately, this winter we don't have more cancels - it wasn't so much cold

Hope that help:)

Usually, we study from the 1st  to the 11th class, but a student can leave school after the 9th class.

Please answer my questions about being/living in Russia:

How long do you go to school?  Are you able to drop out at a certain age? How many grades are there? How are your assignments graded? How much vacation time do you get for holidays?