elementary school

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Recent Examples of elementary school The campus serves students from preschool through elementary school. Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 11 Apr. 2026 And many outlets, including NPR, used satellite imagery to show that a strike at a girl's elementary school in Iran was part of a larger set of targets at a nearby military base. Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 10 Apr. 2026 About 150 people attended the forum, co-hosted by eight community and neighborhood associations and moderated by the League of Women Voters at the former Elmhurst elementary school in Sacramento. Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 10 Apr. 2026 The librarian at Mary Margaret’s school helped guide her to new books and provided support, both in middle and elementary school. Keri Heath, Austin American Statesman, 10 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for elementary school
Recent Examples of Synonyms for elementary school
Noun
  • The secondary school was briefly placed on lockdown before the pursuit continued.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Players still in secondary school are now potentially eligible, like college players, to sign lucrative Name, Image and Likeness sponsorship contracts.
    Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The lodge is involved with the local community in several other ways, too, including a community garden program at a local lower primary school where Domiano runs trainings.
    Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Talankin was a beloved events coordinator and school videographer at his primary school in the remote Russian town of Karabash.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 15 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Hadwick says more must be done to encourage young people to quit nicotine, noting that roughly 7% of California high school students currently report using nicotine products.
    Brady Halbleib, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • On his 18th birthday, the senior on the Irvine baseball team celebrated adulthood in glorious high school style.
    Martin Henderson, Oc Register, 9 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Nurse Heidy Justiniano had not decided who to vote for while already in line outside a public school in Lima.
    Franklin Briceño, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Nurse Heidy Justiniano had not decided who to vote for while already in line outside a public school in Lima.
    ABC News, ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Years later, when his son was in junior high school, his teacher asked him to help his son with a history project.
    Edie Kasten, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The arrest comes a day after an 11-year-old girl was arrested for stabbing a 12-year-old boy inside her Bronx junior high school.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 3 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • After the school board decided not to appeal, the students returned to the grammar school.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Meyers’ father, Michael, coached for 23 years at grammar schools and high schools on the South Side of Chicago.
    Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • That goes back to middle school and high school.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Masayoshi Takanaka’s Journey From Tokyo to TikTok Takanaka, born in Tokyo in 1953, picked up the guitar in middle school, inspired by Western acts including Cream, The Beatles and Ten Years After.
    Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The Denver Post will present the April Heinrichs Award to an extraordinary senior high school girls soccer player from Colorado who’s also a star in the classroom and the community.
    The Denver Post, Denver Post, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Principals could designate supervised areas where more senior high school students can briefly use their phones for multifactor authentication.
    Corinne Brion, The Conversation, 4 Feb. 2026

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“Elementary school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elementary%20school. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.

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