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Recent Examples of elementary school
One killed 175 people, mostly children at an elementary school in Minab, according to Iranian state media, and another killed more than 20 people at a sports hall in Lamerd, according to a March report from a consortium of human rights groups.
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N. Kirkpatrick,
Washington Post,
20 June 2026
Some have known each other since elementary school, while others reconnected years later after moving into the community.
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ABC News,
19 June 2026
One incident in which Wallach exhibited exotic animals after his federal license expired was at a recent elementary school graduation in Margate.
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Katie Surma,
Sun Sentinel,
19 June 2026
The actress didn’t have much background material on Ann, who worked as an elementary school teacher in Connecticut and died at age 67 in 2007.
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Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
17 June 2026
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N. Kirkpatrick,
Washington Post,
20 June 2026
Some have known each other since elementary school, while others reconnected years later after moving into the community.
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ABC News,
19 June 2026
One incident in which Wallach exhibited exotic animals after his federal license expired was at a recent elementary school graduation in Margate.
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Katie Surma,
Sun Sentinel,
19 June 2026
The actress didn’t have much background material on Ann, who worked as an elementary school teacher in Connecticut and died at age 67 in 2007.
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Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
17 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elementary school
- secondary school
- primary school
- high school
- public school
- junior high school
- grammar school
- middle school
- senior high school
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At 16, Elizabeth had just written her Basic Education Certificate Examination, an important academic milestone for junior secondary school students in Ghana seeking to advance to higher education.
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The couple has decided where the 12-year-old royal will attend secondary school.
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The regulations include draconian restrictions on women and girls, including bans on education beyond primary school and what women can wear.
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The young Brooks’s disciplinary problems began with fights in primary school and culminated in his expulsion from college for threatening a policeman with a firearm.
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Ortega graduated from high school as an accomplished student-athlete and through his DACA status was able to earn a college degree and become a teacher.
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The community will feature two lakes, a 50-acre city park, 156 acres of commercial development, a 55-acre business park and 206 acres for two elementary schools, a middle school and a high school in Denton ISD.
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The two companies violated the law by repeatedly giving cash stipends and personal travel rewards to public school employees — primarily teachers — for organizing school trips and recruiting students for the trips, according to the State Ethics Commission.
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Cothiere and Hill are both active public school teachers.
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Families can enter the junior high school through the bus turnaround on North Conejo Avenue near the gym.
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The beginning of Operation Homecoming, the return of POWs, was scheduled for the same night as the junior high school’s Valentine’s Day dance, Saturday, February 10, 1973, just a few weeks after the official signing of the Paris Peace Accords, ending America’s military involvement in Vietnam.
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He was born in New York and grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, starting his grammar school’s first newspaper before writing a humor column for the newspaper while a student at Morristown High School.
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He was born in New York and grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, starting his grammar school’s first newspaper before writing a humor column for the newspaper while a student at Morristown High School.
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The community will feature two lakes, a 50-acre city park, 156 acres of commercial development, a 55-acre business park and 206 acres for two elementary schools, a middle school and a high school in Denton ISD.
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While serving as a principal in Hartford, Connecticut, my elementary school shared a building with both a middle school and a high school.
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This would be required for elementary, junior and senior high schools.
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Yet running in a pro race in Europe after that senior high school season in 2004, Rupp came up more than 36 seconds off of Chapa’s time.
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“Elementary school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elementary%20school. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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