high school

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Recent Examples of high school At that time, Dennis was a teacher at the high school and served as the advisor of a student group that the student was involved in, the sheriff’s office said. Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 7 Aug. 2025 Nivola will play Sonny, the most beloved student at his high school, but the only person who really knows him is his mom. Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2025 Gamble was entering the ninth grade and had to experience the ups and downs of high school away from home. Kansas City Star, 7 Aug. 2025 Years later, those students were also less likely to drop out of high school. Rory Linnane, jsonline.com, 31 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for high school
Recent Examples of Synonyms for high school
Noun
  • As a mother of two boys in public schools and the product of public schools myself, this news was disturbing to say the least.
    Andrea Campbell, Time, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The Courier Journal sent questions about SB 181 to every public school district in the state, totaling about 230.
    Ruby Grisin, The Courier-Journal, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • None has worked at a real paper before, but a couple of good sports tout their experience writing a junior high school term paper, and the other his social media posts from Twitter.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Today Vineyard is an international body of churches, but at the time one of its only chapters met in Dad’s old junior high school.
    Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The cost of elementary and secondary school lunches rose 3.3% in May 2025 relative to May 2024, according to a consumer price index report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
    Jessica Dickler, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The new tax law allows up to $10,000 in tax-free distributions this year from section 529 plans to be used for additional educational expenses in connection with enrollment or attendance at an elementary or secondary school, including private schools and religious schools.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Earlier this year, a bear attacked a man in his 70s near an elementary school in Nasushiobara City, Japan’s public media organization NHK reported.
    Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The arrest occurred days after the start of the school year, and a week after another parent — who an immigration judge had ordered deportation in absentia — was taken into custody by federal immigration agents outside an elementary school in Chula Vista during morning drop-off.
    Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Washington coached high school, middle school sports Washington coached middle school boys basketball in the Park Hill School District, according to a school district sports website.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Holyoke man Scott McGinley, 55 — a middle school librarian in Longmeadow — has been charged with one count of distribution of child pornography.
    Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The Idaho Fairness in Women's Sports Act prohibits transgender women from participating in women's sports from the beginning of primary school to university.
    Nina Totenberg, NPR, 3 July 2025
  • Some 36 government primary schools were shut down in the two academic years leading up to 2024 in Goa, India's smallest state, according to the local daily newspaper The Goan Everyday.
    Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025

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