high school

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Recent Examples of high school In the first part of the two-episode finale, audiences are introduced to Bella (Emma Halleen), a perfectly normal high school student who watches as The Beauty craze sweeps through her world. Hunter Ingram, Variety, 5 Mar. 2026 The 2026 high school volleyball season is underway with a wave of talented players taking the court across the local CIF Southern Section and City Section teams. Justin Vigil Zuniga, Daily News, 5 Mar. 2026 If all approvals are complete by the end of 2027, officials expect to begin construction in March 2028, complete construction in May 2029, and begin the first high school operations in August 2029. George Avalos, Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2026 The Mansfield National Association for the Advancement of Colored People filed a lawsuit on behalf of three Black high school students to attend Mansfield High School. Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for high school
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Noun
  • Our homeschool differs from the local public school, including the fact that our kids are eating while studying, children of different ages learn alongside one another, and there are no standardized tests.
    Nicholas Tampio, Hartford Courant, 10 Mar. 2026
  • But since 79% of applicants are already in private school, the extent of the impact on public school funding may be limited.
    Lacey Beasley, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • Multiple vehicles were blocking the bus lane that day at the junior high school campus.
    Paula Wethington, CBS News, 14 Dec. 2025
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
  • The former five-star prospect missed his entire senior high school season and freshman college season due to a torn ACL, reinjuring the same knee that had already been surgically repaired.
    Tony Catalina, Austin American Statesman, 4 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The species name goes to David Rhys Jones, a secondary school physics teacher in Wales who taught the lead author.
    Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2026
  • More than 200 million years after this creature last roamed what is now the United Kingdom, scientists have formally identified it as a new species — and named it after a secondary school physics teacher in Wales.
    Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • In the past week, the Department of War bombed an elementary school for young girls.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2026
  • In early January, an Apopka mother heard reports of ICE raids near her daughter’s Orange County elementary school.
    Camila Gomez, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In middle school at Core Prep, Alijah was pinned against older, stronger prospects on a daily basis.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • In a series regular role, Sensmeier will play Terry Bai, a former Vietnam vet turned racetrack worker with ties to Chee (Kiowa Gordon) from middle school.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 11 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Among the dead are a primary school teacher and her son, a second-grade student, who were killed in their home, and an eighth-grader who also died with her mother, according to the city's mayor, Ihor Terekhov.
    CBS News, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Among the dead were a primary school teacher and her son, a second-grader, killed in their home; and an eighth-grader who also died with her mother, according to the city’s mayor, Ihor Terekhov.
    Susie Blann, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2026

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