School environment is one of the most formative factors of a child’s educational success and experience in life. A supportive, growth-oriented environment can set a child up to be confident and a self-starter in all their endeavors, while a school environment that fosters negativity and fear can produce an individual crippled by anxiety and set up to aim low in life.
The school environment encompasses the structure, schedule, space, curriculum and course work, and approach to socialization within a school. Schools are organized by grade level, forming the grades into the groupings known as preschool, elementary, middle, and high school.