Group 852 - Primary/elementary education Elementary education refers to the stage of compulsory formal education primarily concerned with providing basic education, and usually corresponding to six or seven grades. The core at this level consists of education for children, the customary or normal age of entrance to which is seven years. Programs in this level are designed to give the pupils a sound basic education in reading, writing, and arithmetic along with an elementary understanding of other subject areas such as social studies, science, arts and music, practical arts, and values education.

Group 852 sits in the PSIC 2019 hierarchy under P Education > 85 Education. This group usually narrows the choice to a small family of classes such as Primary/elementary education (for children without special needs) and Primary/elementary education for children with special needs. It is useful when two or three neighboring activities look similar but should not be collapsed into one code.

This group is used when reviewers compare a short list of classes such as Primary/elementary education (for children without special needs) and Primary/elementary education for children with special needs and need to decide which family is the closest fit. It is common in internal classification review and administrative lookup work.

Use this group when the activity sits between similar classes such as Primary/elementary education (for children without special needs) and Primary/elementary education for children with special needs. The safest choice is the one whose wording matches the actual production, service or operating model most closely.