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Recent Examples of high school
Aaron Donald played his high school football at Penn Hills before staying home to play college football at Pitt and then had an outstanding NFL career for the Los Angeles Rams.
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March 26, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026
This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
My high school biology teacher told me to become an actuary.
—Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2026
Sterling ends his high school basketball career as a 2026 All-Mission League and All-CIF selection.
—Tarek Fattal, Daily News, 26 Mar. 2026
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March 26, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026
This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
My high school biology teacher told me to become an actuary.
—Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2026
Sterling ends his high school basketball career as a 2026 All-Mission League and All-CIF selection.
—Tarek Fattal, Daily News, 26 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for high school
- public school
- junior high school
- senior high school
- secondary school
- elementary school
- middle school
- common school
- primary school
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This year, more than 2,600 OCPS students left public school to use those scholarships, also called vouchers, according to Step Up For Students, which administers most of Florida’s scholarships.—
Steven Walker,
The Orlando Sentinel,
31 Mar. 2026
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My father was a public school teacher.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
31 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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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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But the stakes of state legislation that would create new hurdles for immigrant children to attend elementary and secondary school would arguably be much higher.—
William McCorkle,
The Conversation,
23 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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In August, fast-growing Star will welcome around 600 students to a new elementary school on North Pollard Lane.—
Noah Daly,
Idaho Statesman,
30 Mar. 2026
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Cajon Valley is a growing elementary school district serving nearly 18,000 students, among them many refugees and recent immigrants.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 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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Being outside of the scope of the requirement of the statutory definition of the common school system, charter schools fail to meet the definition required of a common school.—
Lucas Aulbach,
Louisville Courier Journal,
19 Feb. 2026
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Here are the most common schools represented among ASU grads in 2025: Engineering Liberal Arts and Sciences New College Teachers College Design and the Arts Health Solutions Public Service and Community Solutions Helen Rummel covers higher education for The Arizona Republic.—
Helen Rummel,
AZCentral.com,
12 May 2025
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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
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Wunmi also developed a curious daily ritual of coming home every day after primary school, drinking cartons of long-life milk, and watching Annie.—
Kemi Alemoru,
Glamour,
14 Mar. 2026
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“High school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high%20school. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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