high school

noun

Definition of high schoolnext
as in public school

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Recent Examples of high school For someone who is leaving high school or in their 20s, there is generally not as much responsibility as someone who is 40, 45 or 50. — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 6 July 2026 In high school, a young person’s digital life becomes even more complicated. — Elizabeth Dowdell, The Conversation, 6 July 2026 He has been married once, to his former high school sweetheart and mother of his first child, Toya Johnson. — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 6 July 2026 Prep Rally is devoted to the SoCal high school sports experience, bringing you scores, stories and a behind-the-scenes look at what makes prep sports so popular. — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for high school
Recent Examples of Synonyms for high school
  1. public school
  2. junior high school
  3. senior high school
  4. secondary school
  5. elementary school
  6. middle school
  7. common school
  8. primary school
Noun
  • Both public school districts continue to outperform the state of Florida average testing marks for most academic subject and skill tests.
    — Austin Horn July 3, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026
  • Amanda Davidson and her family moved to Overland Park a few years ago due to the area’s strong public school system.
    — Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026
Definition of public school
Noun
  • Japanese scientists studied university and junior high school soccer players of varying skill levels to study dribbling dynamics, focusing on the scissors feint.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 30 June 2026
  • Families can enter the junior high school through the bus turnaround on North Conejo Avenue near the gym.
    — Brandon Downs, CBS News, 28 May 2026
Definition of junior high 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
Noun
  • The students, who were taking their secondary school leaving examinations when they were attacked and abducted, are between 15 and 18 years old.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 June 2026
  • As William revealed earlier this year, George has already started boarding—good preparation for what is to come at secondary school.
    — Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 28 June 2026
Definition of secondary school
Noun
  • Annemarie Cortez, the principal at an elementary school in Corona, California, told me that many administrators are instructing teachers not to assign full books; they’re supposed to be running discrete reading drills with short excerpts.
    — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
  • Afrobeats star Burna Boy, Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the PS22 Chorus — a choir of elementary school students based in Staten Island, New York — will also perform, the last joined by Coldplay.
    — Staff And Wire Reports, Boston Herald, 8 July 2026
Definition of elementary school
Noun
  • During middle school, students begin to focus on establishing their identity, peer belonging and rapidly developing impulse-control systems.
    — Elizabeth Dowdell, The Conversation, 6 July 2026
  • For the first time, middle school students will participate in summer programs focused on artificial intelligence, STEM subjects, mathematics, science, and English.
    — Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of middle school
Noun
  • Hand in hand with that was the rise of literacy and the universal common school movement.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • 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.
    — Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 20 Feb. 2026
Definition of common school
Noun
  • This has been compounded by massive cuts in international aid and a Taliban government that has sidelined half of Afghanistan’s population, denying women and girls education beyond primary school and banning them from the vast majority of jobs.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
  • Improving the economy was a talking point, for example, when Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf held a recent video call with the family of a child killed by an American airstrike on a primary school that killed 156 people, mostly pupils.
    — Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2026
Definition of primary school

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