elementary school

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Recent Examples of elementary school Her favorite part of being an elementary school teacher is making her kids laugh by singing, doing the worm, and even juggling soccer balls. Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 22 June 2025 While the superintendent and elementary school’s principal were on board, some community members were not. Jack Rodriquez-Vars, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2025 But many of her friends in elementary school already had accounts on Instagram and TikTok, and Koziol felt left out. Charlotte Alter, Time, 18 June 2025 Mauro visited the elementary school and spoke with 4th graders who asked extremely thoughtful questions about the importance and impact of sustainability on his restaurants, on local communities, and on the planet. Michelle Greenwald, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for elementary school
Recent Examples of Synonyms for elementary school
Noun
  • In some cases, the similarities between the Ivy League and prestigious secondary schools are not coincidental, but the result of deep historical ties.
    Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • The most recent ruled that Maine’s tuition assistance to parents in districts lacking public secondary schools can be used at religious institutions.
    Charles J. Russo, The Conversation, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • The number of children entering primary school in 2023 reached the highest level in over two decades, according to Wind Information, before dropping in 2024, the year her son enrolled.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 21 June 2025
  • After Victoria completed primary school in 2018, her family had no means to send her for further education.
    Ogar Monday, Christian Science Monitor, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • The after-school program paid 15 high school juniors and seniors from across the county to attend get togethers at OCMA biweekly to learn about curatorial practice and all facets of arts administration.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • Clayton’s competitiveness and toughness developed as a high school football star, along with his clutch play on college basketball’s biggest stage continued to elevate his NBA stock.
    Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • An overwhelming majority of public school parents (71%) support such a requirement.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 20 June 2025
  • Only 7% of public school students are in charter schools.
    Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • In 1966, the school was moved to Breightmet, maintaining its status as a grammar school.
    Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Ryan Gosling is a middle school teacher who is tasked with a mission somehow more impossible than getting his students to care, well, about anything, in the first trailer for Project Hail Mary.
    Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2025
  • That’s right: Gosling is leading the feature as a middle school biology teacher who travels to space to save the universe.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • The couple moved to Long Prairie in 1963, where Everett continued his 35-year teaching career in both junior and senior high school science.
    Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Two senior high school students at the San Diego Unified School District encouraged their peers in a blog post to avoid participating in the challenge.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 21 May 2025

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