boarding school

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Recent Examples of boarding school In the book, an unnamed narrator moves into the Kennedy dorm room once occupied by Foster Dade, who had transferred to the boarding school in 2008 but was later expelled due to a scandal that the narrator investigates over the course of years. Selome Hailu, Variety, 30 Oct. 2025 Adapted from German author Mona Kasten’s trilogy, Save Me, Save You and Save Us, the series centers on Ruby Bell (Harriet Herbig-Matten), a determined scholar at a prestigious boarding school, Maxton Hall, with aspirations to attend Oxford. Maddie Garfinkle, PEOPLE, 29 Oct. 2025 This time, Vee leaves Transylvania to study among humans at Wilson Hall, a performing arts boarding school. Allison McClain Merrill, Parents, 27 Oct. 2025 In addition to its prime, bucolic location in the Green Mountains, Putney is perhaps best known for its schools, including Landmark College and the boarding schools, Putney School and Greenwood School. Megan Margulies, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for boarding school
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Noun
  • Blue beautifully calibrates Edward's transformation, aided by Jason Orlenko's costume design, moving from a prep school graduate's outfit to a slinky look in the final scene.
    Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Others will go to a prep school with an eye toward a college soccer scholarship.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Jesuit was founded in 1963 as the capital region’s only all-boys Catholic college preparatory school and has a student body of 953 as of the current school year, according to its website.
    Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 5 Oct. 2025
  • According to multiple sources, including a letter from the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida and a statement from The Webb School, a college preparatory school in Tennessee, the Hardin family’s home in Hunt, Texas, was washed away by floodwaters while the family was inside.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • The relationship goes back to Mahomes’ high school days in Whitehouse, Texas.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2025
  • On Thursday night, meanwhile, high school student and aspiring dermatologist Mailyn Marsh, of Missouri, was named this year’s Miss Teen USA, a companion title for contestants aged 14 to 19.
    Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Loucks added national context, citing information from the 2024 National Assessment of Education Progress that said just 31% of fourth-grade public school students nationwide performed at or above the proficient level on the reading assessment.
    Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Researchers followed more than 800 students and staff members from a large public school district in Kansas City, Missouri, from November 2022 through May 2023.
    Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • His label pioneered the industry’s intensive training system, recruiting performers as young as elementary school age and putting them through years of rigorous preparation.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Broncos quarterback Bo Nix had just started elementary school when his new teammate made his pro debut.
    Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Lawyers representing charter school interests argued such funding is constitutional as charter schools are held accountable by the state and fit the Kentucky Constitution's definition of a common school.
    Hannah Pinski, Louisville Courier Journal, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The common school movement also advocated for the right of girls to attend public schools—the first co-educational high school in America only opened in 1840—which became widespread by the 1870s.
    Richard Stengel, TIME, 15 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • After graduating with a degree in history from the University of Ghana, Mahama taught at a secondary school before pursuing a post-graduate degree in social psychology in Moscow, graduating in 1988.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
  • There's no school for Vrana's two older children, who travel to Fourni for secondary school by ferry.
    Sarah McCammon, NPR, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The state will collect feedback and purchasing data during the pilot year to evaluate the program, and there are plans to expand into additional schools across the state in the 2026-27 school year, the release said.
    Cristina LaRue, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2025
  • He was known to the university only as Justin Phillips and none of the school’s records indicated a prior identity, according to the statement.
    Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 7 Nov. 2025

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