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Recent Examples of elementary school
O’Mara assumed a leadership position in his region, advocating for a new regional Catholic elementary school and collaborating with leaders of three neighboring parishes to gain funding.
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Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2026
The organization said 93 students participated in this year’s ELCE awards ceremonies, including 55 teen leaders and 38 elementary school students.
—Samantha Gowen, Oc Register, 1 June 2026
Priority is given to elementary school-age children who are working on these skills.
—Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 1 June 2026
And Mario Thompson, an elementary school principal who has been intimately involved in all his daughters’ careers, is having to negotiate all this on the fly.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
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Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2026
The organization said 93 students participated in this year’s ELCE awards ceremonies, including 55 teen leaders and 38 elementary school students.
—Samantha Gowen, Oc Register, 1 June 2026
Priority is given to elementary school-age children who are working on these skills.
—Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 1 June 2026
And Mario Thompson, an elementary school principal who has been intimately involved in all his daughters’ careers, is having to negotiate all this on the fly.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 May 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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The march was organized by the Confederation of Chilean Students and supported by other organizations, including the Teachers’ Union, secondary school student associations, and feminist groups.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 June 2026
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The bus was coming from the academy’s secondary school just over a mile away on Brewster Street.—
Mara H. Gottfried,
Twin Cities,
2 June 2026
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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.—
Rob Wolfe,
The Atlantic,
5 June 2026
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The primary school also lost its fresh water after it was contaminated with lake water.—
Tommy Trenchard,
NPR,
31 May 2026
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Huntington Beach is making the most of its second chance in postseason high school baseball.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2026
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Not bad for a girl won won’t start high school until this fall.—
Stan Awtrey,
AJC.com,
4 June 2026
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In the late 1980s, about 70% of public school students and over 85% of teachers were white.—
David Blazar,
The Conversation,
1 June 2026
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Senate Bill 2427 will impact K-12 students at Illinois' roughly 850 public school districts starting with the 2027-2028 school year.—
Megan De Mar,
CBS News,
1 June 2026
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Families can enter the junior high school through the bus turnaround on North Conejo Avenue near the gym.—
Brandon Downs,
CBS News,
28 May 2026
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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.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 May 2026
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The son of a minor industrialist in Karachi, Naqvi studied at a British-style grammar school and then the London School of Economics, before working at Amex and Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm that would later be destroyed in the Enron scandal.—
Hettie O'Brien,
The Dial,
21 Apr. 2026
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After the school board decided not to appeal, the students returned to the grammar school.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
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Court testimony shows that Hamawy met Adbel-Rahman in 1991 when Hamawy was in middle school.—
Philip Wang,
Time,
3 June 2026
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This year, students from 28 colleges and universities, 13 high schools, and one middle school from around the world participated.—
Chelsea Gohd,
Space.com,
2 June 2026
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This would be required for elementary, junior and senior high schools.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
24 May 2026
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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.—
Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Elementary school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elementary%20school. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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