junior high school

noun

: a school usually including grades seven to nine

called also junior high

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None has worked at a real paper before, but a couple of good sports tout their experience writing a junior high school term paper, and the other his social media posts from Twitter. Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2025 Today Vineyard is an international body of churches, but at the time one of its only chapters met in Dad’s old junior high school. Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025 As early as junior high school, Uriegas stood up to racist bullies among adults and peers. Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 The family lived in the Indianhead Lake Estates in Sherwood, where Sawaya started junior high school. Arkansas Online, 22 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for junior high school

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First Known Use

1907, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of junior high school was in 1907

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“Junior high school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/junior%20high%20school. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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junior high school

noun
: a school usually including the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades

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