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Recent Examples of grammar school
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.
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Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2026
Collier won a place at a grammar school and then at Oxford.
—Sam Knight, New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2025
At the same time, across the border, the Illinois governor delivered an address asking federal officials to suspend operations through the holiday weekend after their agents deployed tear gas and interrupted a Chicago grammar school’s Halloween festivities.
—Michael Loria, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
The facility was also home to a grammar school for orphans, choirboys and boys who lived on the hospital’s land.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
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Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2026
Collier won a place at a grammar school and then at Oxford.
—Sam Knight, New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2025
At the same time, across the border, the Illinois governor delivered an address asking federal officials to suspend operations through the holiday weekend after their agents deployed tear gas and interrupted a Chicago grammar school’s Halloween festivities.
—Michael Loria, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
The facility was also home to a grammar school for orphans, choirboys and boys who lived on the hospital’s land.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grammar school
- high school
- trade school
- public school
- junior high school
- elementary school
- middle school
- secondary school
- senior high school
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Seals and Crofts were native Texans who had known each other since high school and played together in various groups before becoming a duo, Seals & Crofts, in the late 1960s.—
Hillel Italie,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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An over-the-top hazing event involving members of a high school baseball team is under investigation in southeastern North Carolina, according to deputies.—
Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Mar. 2026
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Once a student grew up, the account holding that starting contribution and any additional funds their family contributed could have been used to help pay for education after high school, including college or trade school.—
R. Christian Smith,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Mar. 2026
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The young teen was thinking about going to a trade school to learn about becoming a mechanic.—
Emma Seiwell,
New York Daily News,
7 Mar. 2026
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Georgia could become the first state to require every student to be checked for weapons when arriving at a public school each day.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Founded in 1935, the Lake Forest Caucus vets residents interested in serving on city boards and commissions and endorses candidates for local offices, including mayor, City Council, and the city’s two local public school boards.—
Daniel I. Dorfman,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2026
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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
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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
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Extreme thoughtfulness went into the property built on the site of a former prominent elementary school, with some of its sakura (cherry blossom) and Japanese maple trees now waving in the breeze after being carefully moved pre-construction and replanted upon completion.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
21 Mar. 2026
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But parents said that they were told that the for-profit elementary school could close on March 27.—
Penny Kmitt,
CBS News,
21 Mar. 2026
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By middle school, the precocious teen booked her first audition, a spot for the National Dairy Board.—
Bryan West,
USA Today,
25 Mar. 2026
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Spalding’s parents are both educators, one an AP physics teacher at Peninsula High, the other a middle school vice principal.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Mar. 2026
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United Teachers Los Angeles represents more than 30,000 classroom teachers, psychologists, attendance counselors, guidance counselors, nurses and secondary school librarians.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Mar. 2026
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An explosive-laden drone blamed on Sudanese paramilitaries struck a secondary school and a health care center in southern Sudan on Wednesday, killing at least 17 people, mostly schoolgirls, a hospital official and a medical group said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
12 Mar. 2026
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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
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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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“Grammar school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grammar%20school. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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