Thesaurus results for GRAMMAR SCHOOL

grammar school

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as in high school

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Recent Examples of grammar school 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 After Cathedral School, a grammar school across Gough Street, closed, Sacred Heart Cathedral arranged a long-term lease and turned that lot into a too-small grass practice field for football, soccer and lacrosse, called Coach Bill Henneberry Practice Field. — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2026 For instance, throughout the Middle Ages, grammar schools began with letter sounds and memorization of the Psalms for practice. — Daniel Buck, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for grammar school

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Erika looks on with the malevolent bemusement of a college cheerleader coming back to homecoming to judge her old high school squad.

— Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2026
In 2021, a teen was arrested after wounding two students and injuring two others in a shooting at a high school in Newport News, Virginia.

— Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of high school

Noun

Many students can get federal financial aid for trade school, but eligibility depends on both the student and the school or program.

— Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026
When participants come into the program, some want to finish a trade school, like HVAC or beauty school, while others may want to improve their grades.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 27 July 2026

Definition of trade school

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Over the past year, Winters led AI training for over 7,000 teachers, almost a third of Utah’s public school instructors.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2026
The curriculum—a first for the local public school system—was also a bid to control communal loyalties in Hawaii, which the United States had annexed in 1898.

— H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of public school

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Bullying and assault allegations In 2018, according to court documents, while still in elementary school, Austin Metcalf and his brother were accused of bullying and assaulting a female, which led to Austin Metcalf's arrest.

— J.D. Miles, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
Parker also has three children, two of whom are in elementary school.

— Julia Gomez, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of elementary school

Noun

More than 30 high and middle school students in the Ferndale Public Schools district earned hands-on experience, and for some, wages, as part of the district's Drone Apprenticeship Program.

— DeJanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
The West Ada School District seeks to make 90% of the day for elementary students and 80% of the day for middle school students screen-free.

— Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of middle school

Noun

The ban has been in place long enough that an entire cohort of girls has passed through adolescence without stepping foot in a secondary school classroom.

— Kara Fox, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
In 2014, Boko Haram took almost three hundred girls from a secondary school in Chibok; the whereabouts of some ninety are still unknown.

— Alexis Okeowo, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of secondary school

Noun

This would be required for elementary, junior and senior high schools.

— Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 May 2026
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

Definition of senior high school

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