elementary school

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Recent Examples of elementary school After elementary school, Marcia entered Booker T. Washington Jr./Sr. Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2025 From there, Hannelius, still in elementary school, became a familiar face on the Disney Channel, with recurring roles on fan favorites like Good Luck Charlie, Sonny with a Chance and Jessie. Jordan Greene, People.com, 24 Apr. 2025 These lessons begin in elementary school and continue through high school. Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025 Design plans to construct additions at six elementary schools were unanimously approved by the Carroll County Board of Education. Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 23 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for elementary school
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Noun
  • In France and Switzerland, secondary schools are beginning to use Beekee devices to give students digital access without exposing them fully to the internet during class.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Jaz Johnson, a 23-year-old from Brighton, is a pastoral officer (a British cross between a social worker, guidance counselor, and student support staff) at a local secondary school.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The primary school layout also has an endearing charm, as each office was once a classroom for kids.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The primary school layout also has an endearing charm, as each office was once a classroom for kids.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Before attending Princeton, Blackburn was a standout high school student chosen as one of 2,500 students for the National Merit Scholarship in 2019, according to WAVE.
    Jonathan Limehouse, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
  • In high school in Idaho, Loveland was all-everything.
    Kevin Fishbain, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • That drop has stabilized in recent years, according to the National Catholic Educational Association, as the pandemic brought broader shifts in enrollment away from traditional public schooling (though most kids still attend public schools).
    Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Any board member who’s solely worried about re-election and winning a popularity contest with voters should step down and let others take their place who can make sound fiscal decisions, while striving to improve the education of all public school students.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • And in a third incident, Sobel said, a junior high school student in Weston found two swastikas in his football locker.
    Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2025
  • But then in junior high school my world was rocked by one man: Bobby Caldwell.
    John Blake, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The settlement boasted both a high school and a grammar school – yet the lecture hall of the complex was only unearthed this past March.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • As a kid in Los Angeles’s Chatsworth neighborhood, growing up on a property that had once belonged to cowboy star Roy Rogers, Kilmer began studying acting in grammar school, already dreaming of emulating Hollywood’s eccentric nonpareil, Marlon Brando.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Her first inspiration: Catherine C. Blackwell, a pioneer in African and African-American studies and the namesake of Brewer’s middle school.
    Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 1 May 2025
  • The beloved quartet of novels follows members of a middle school track team; each student has their own book, including Ghost, a finalist for the National Book Award, Patina, Sunny and Lu.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Nothing was normal about this all-star matchup, which pitted 99 of the South Bay’s best senior high school football players against each other on North and South teams.
    Christian Babcock, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2025
  • About six companies specially recruit junior and senior high school students every fall, according to its website.
    Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2025

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