intermediate school

noun

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2
: a school usually comprising grades four to six

Examples of intermediate school in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Maui County said around 3:30 p.m. that the fire forced the closure of the Lahaina Bypass, a major road near the intermediate school also known as Highway 3000. Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Richard Winton, Alexandra E. Petri and Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Aug. 2023 Among the classified personnel contracts approved for 2022-23 was that of Gigi Kuper-Lewis, who will serve as administrative assistant to the intermediate school principal. Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 21 July 2022 Right now, local intermediate school districts receive funding to administer the program for children at risk of low educational attainment. Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 26 Jan. 2023 Once established, the assessment tools must be distributed to intermediate school districts — which frequently serve students who are deaf — other public schools and the Michigan School for the Deaf. Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 4 Jan. 2023 Caddo Mills Independent School District has two elementary schools, a middle school, a high school and an intermediate school. Dallas News, 24 Oct. 2022 Steven Llanusa was the president of Claremont Unified School District in Los Angeles County, a district representing two high schools, an intermediate school and six elementary schools. Li Cohen, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2022 Klusmann also teaches fifth-grade English language arts at the intermediate school. Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 1 Aug. 2022 When the district needed intermediate school teachers in 2018, Reeder volunteered to teach fourth-graders and is still in that classroom today. cleveland, 18 May 2022 See More

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Word History

First Known Use

1842, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of intermediate school was in 1842

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“Intermediate school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intermediate%20school. Accessed 21 Sep. 2023.

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