junior high school

noun

: a school usually including grades seven to nine

called also junior high

Examples of junior high school in a Sentence

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The Cups 4 Cancer fundraiser will be dedicated to Austin’s former junior high school teammate Dylan Krestan, who has battled Hodgkin lymphoma for the last several months. Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2025 The controversy in Loudoun County came the day after parents and residents clashed at a school board meeting in the Chicago area on Monday after a trans junior high school student won multiple events at a local track meet. Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 22 May 2025 Students at Evanston Academy, which would turn into the district's junior high school for the east corridor, would go to Frederick Douglass instead. Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 9 Dec. 2024 That was March 2, 2013 when Great Valley lost by six points to Abington High School during his junior high school season. Tim Casey, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for junior high school

Word History

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 12 Jul. 2025.

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junior high school

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

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