high schoolers

noun

plural of high schooler
as in middle schoolers

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  1. undergraduates
  2. freshmen
  3. juniors
Noun
  • In academic performance, boys lag well behind girls in elementary school, high school, and college, where female undergraduates now outnumber their male peers roughly 2 to 1.
    — The Week US, TheWeek, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Princeton undergraduates are helping the organization develop standards for post-mortem digital privacy and death in custody.
    — Rachel Brooks, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of undergraduates
Noun
  • Other college freshmen might be outside soaking up the nice weather on this sunny September day.
    — Kate Perez, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The College of Literature, Science and the Arts is the largest at the public university, with about 3,500 freshmen enrolled yearly, just less than half of the total class.
    — Dan Simmons, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of freshmen
Noun
  • The routine output juniors used to produce is what clears the gate, so what is left is checking, correcting and escalating what an agent produced.
    — Manu Khetan, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Cazmierczak had 30 assists against Orangewood — feeding sophomore Emerson Lalashuis (12 kills) and juniors Leni Young (10 kills) and Eden Knapp (eight kills).
    — Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of juniors
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