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Recent Examples of high school
After graduating high school, Lorena immigrated to the United States on a student visa and enrolled in a community college in Virginia.
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Kelsey Lentz, People.com, 23 June 2025
Drafted as a shortstop by the Royals out of high school in 2007, Cruz didn’t make his big league debut until 2022 at the age of 32.
—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 23 June 2025
Take a journey down memory lane and recap some of the best Fort Worth-area high school sports moments of the year.
—Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 June 2025
One of the all-time great high school players in Southern California, Greenwood and teammate Roy Hamilton were among the final players recruited by legendary UCLA coach John Wooden.
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025
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Kelsey Lentz, People.com, 23 June 2025
Drafted as a shortstop by the Royals out of high school in 2007, Cruz didn’t make his big league debut until 2022 at the age of 32.
—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 23 June 2025
Take a journey down memory lane and recap some of the best Fort Worth-area high school sports moments of the year.
—Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 June 2025
One of the all-time great high school players in Southern California, Greenwood and teammate Roy Hamilton were among the final players recruited by legendary UCLA coach John Wooden.
—Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2025
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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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An overwhelming majority of public school parents (71%) support such a requirement.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
20 June 2025
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School choice funding expands — again While funding to public schools has increased minimally this year, funding to expand school choice initiatives has increased exponentially.—
Clara-Sophia Daly,
Miami Herald,
18 June 2025
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The controversy in Loudoun County came the day after parents and residents clashed at a school board meeting in the Chicago area on Monday after a trans junior high school student won multiple events at a local track meet.—
Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
22 May 2025
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Students at Evanston Academy, which would turn into the district's junior high school for the east corridor, would go to Frederick Douglass instead.—
Madeline Mitchell,
The Enquirer,
9 Dec. 2024
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The couple moved to Long Prairie in 1963, where Everett continued his 35-year teaching career in both junior and senior high school science.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
20 Feb. 2024
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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
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In some cases, the similarities between the Ivy League and prestigious secondary schools are not coincidental, but the result of deep historical ties.—
Christopher Rim,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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The most recent ruled that Maine’s tuition assistance to parents in districts lacking public secondary schools can be used at religious institutions.—
Charles J. Russo,
The Conversation,
23 May 2025
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Hobart Superintendent Peggy Buffington said cursive is still taught in its elementary schools and it’s also taught in neighboring River Forest schools, said Superintendent Kevin Trezak. Lake Station Community Schools, doesn’t teach it, said Superintendent Tom Cripliver.—
Carole Carlson,
Chicago Tribune,
29 June 2025
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The screening is currently targeted at students in the first and fourth grades of elementary school, and the first levels of middle and high school.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 June 2025
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Ryan Gosling is a middle school teacher who is tasked with a mission somehow more impossible than getting his students to care, well, about anything, in the first trailer for Project Hail Mary.—
Althea Legaspi,
Rolling Stone,
30 June 2025
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That’s right: Gosling is leading the feature as a middle school biology teacher who travels to space to save the universe.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
30 June 2025
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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
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Indiana code requires the court to forfeit the bond of a defendant who fails to appear in court and transfer the bond amount to the state common school fund, according to the audit.—
Alexandra Kukulka,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Dec. 2024
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The number of children entering primary school in 2023 reached the highest level in over two decades, according to Wind Information, before dropping in 2024, the year her son enrolled.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
21 June 2025
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After Victoria completed primary school in 2018, her family had no means to send her for further education.—
Ogar Monday,
Christian Science Monitor,
17 June 2025
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“High school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high%20school. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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