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high school

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Recent Examples of high school Colleges are staring down a looming demographic cliff, with the number of high school graduates projected to decline substantially. Yolanda Watson Spiva, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2025 Senior Jack English ended his high school football career with a 23 yard TD. Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Nov. 2025 According to Toronto Life, Hann and Bich were strict, pressuring their kids academically and barring Jennifer from dating until after high school. Emily Krauser, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025 No scholarship offers out of high school A San Diego native, Cherry comes from a basketball family. Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 8 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for high school
Recent Examples of Synonyms for high school
Noun
  • Loucks added national context, citing information from the 2024 National Assessment of Education Progress that said just 31% of fourth-grade public school students nationwide performed at or above the proficient level on the reading assessment.
    Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Researchers followed more than 800 students and staff members from a large public school district in Kansas City, Missouri, from November 2022 through May 2023.
    Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • My junior high school yearbook picture drives that truth home.
    Josh Browning, Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
  • As the mean girl of the town's junior high school, Amber uses her popularity to hurt Kat instead of treating her nicely.
    Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Two senior high school students at the San Diego Unified School District encouraged their peers in a blog post to avoid participating in the challenge.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 21 May 2025
  • Nothing was normal about this all-star matchup, which pitted 99 of the South Bay’s best senior high school football players against each other on North and South teams.
    Christian Babcock, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The Princess of Wales will then meet with veterans in attendance, as well as secondary school students whose parents are currently deployed.
    Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
  • After graduating with a degree in history from the University of Ghana, Mahama taught at a secondary school before pursuing a post-graduate degree in social psychology in Moscow, graduating in 1988.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Younger children in prekindergarten and elementary school had the highest rates of both infection and illness on average.
    Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The Montclair parents found that most elementary school students can handle a distance of 3-5 miles, and the group travels at a speed of around 6 miles per hour so the younger kids can keep up.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • In 2007, McKeller released her first book, Math Doesn’t Suck, demystifying concepts like fractions, decimals, percents, and algebra for girls in middle school.
    Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 5 Nov. 2025
  • As of her gubernatorial win, Sherrill and Hedberg's younger son, Ike, is a sophomore at Montclair High School, while Marit is in middle school at Montclair Kimberley Academy.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Lawyers representing charter school interests argued such funding is constitutional as charter schools are held accountable by the state and fit the Kentucky Constitution's definition of a common school.
    Hannah Pinski, Louisville Courier Journal, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The common school movement also advocated for the right of girls to attend public schools—the first co-educational high school in America only opened in 1840—which became widespread by the 1870s.
    Richard Stengel, TIME, 15 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Its residents are more than willing to pay the $500,000 upfront membership fee plus nearly $40,000 a year to use the island’s amenities, which Eber notes include both pickleball and tennis courts, two deepwater marinas, a nine-hole golf course, a spa and a private primary school.
    Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The primary school on Thymaina is down to just two grade-school students.
    Sarah McCammon, NPR, 29 Oct. 2025

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“High school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high%20school. Accessed 26 Nov. 2025.

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