high school

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Recent Examples of high school The deadline was given to the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) and Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) after a transgender softball pitcher led a girls high school team to a state championship in the spring. Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025 Pulte grew up in Florida and attended a private high school before enrolling at Northwestern University. Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025 Emmett Siegel of the Washington Post posted a photo on X of Belichick watching a high school football game between Good Counsel and DeMatha in Olney, Maryland. Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Oct. 2025 The origins of the beat are unclear, but students likely started it, according to the district’s drumline instructor Jeremy Reyes, who helped lead the high school musicians in the video. Kayla Huynh, jsonline.com, 10 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for high school
Recent Examples of Synonyms for high school
Noun
  • Understanding this is necessary to keep hope for the fight to improve public school history education.
    Taylor Cassidy, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Every child in our public school district needs regular access to healthful food regardless of their family’s income level.
    Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • George Clinton and the Parliaments played at my junior high school.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The words were handwritten in pencil by a junior high school student named Katie Hawkins in 1953.
    April White, JSTOR Daily, 15 Sep. 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
  • Nearly three-quarters of the 119 million girls out of school worldwide are of secondary school-age, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Girls were notably banned from secondary school the next month, meaning that online education became one of the last avenues of hope.
    Zahra Nader, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Rauw Teaches Salsa Classes In a new episode of Celebrity Substitute, Rauw Alejandro visited elementary school PS 96 in Harlem, New York, to teach students the history, sounds, and moves of salsa music.
    Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Current research indicates several health benefits of elementary school run club programs.
    Cyril A. Reinicke, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In the series, Meester will portray Abby, the middle school nemesis of Bell's character Joanne.
    Amy McCarthy, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • There, the pilots really were given a map of the Korean peninsula torn out of a middle school textbook.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 17 Oct. 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
  • On the philanthropy front, a group of primary school students from the inland Guizhou province, who have never seen the ocean, traveled with their teachers to Shanghai to visit the exhibition and experience the seaside for the first time.
    Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2025
  • This was in Balmain, a suburb of Sydney, where her mother was an administrator at a primary school that prioritized Aboriginal children.
    Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2025

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