high school

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Recent Examples of high school The Eagle Mountain Knights threw a mini dance party after a victory in a non-district UIL high school football game on Friday. Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Sep. 2025 It has been linked to concussions and other head trauma associated with contact sports, with evidence of the disease found in both professional and high school athletes. CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025 Kayton Bell, Westmoreland High Just a freshman, Kayton has been marching and performing with the high school bands since eighth grade and is always on task and comes prepared for rehearsal. Andy Humbles, Nashville Tennessean, 26 Sep. 2025 Saukville is set to be home for a private, nonprofit high school. Cathy Kozlowicz, jsonline.com, 26 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for high school
Recent Examples of Synonyms for high school
Noun
  • Elevate, which consults widely across pro and college sports, said the vehicle was fully funded by private equity firm Velocity Capital Management and the Texas Permanent School Fund (TPSF), a special-purpose government corporation that oversees a nearly $60 billion public school endowment.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The results were about the same from the 2023-24 school year, with public school students' performance on the reading portion of the exam improving by less than a percentage point.
    Kayla Huynh, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The words were handwritten in pencil by a junior high school student named Katie Hawkins in 1953.
    April White, JSTOR Daily, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Police said the incident began with a physical altercation at a north-area junior high school, which officials did not name.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 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
  • According to Florida law, that includes police stations, prisons, polling places, elementary or secondary school buildings and locations where open carry is prohibited by federal law.
    Max Rego, The Hill, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Inspired by the colonial Singapore gangsters rulers, four girls, at a modern-day regimented elite secondary school form their own gang cam-recording petty acts of rebellion, led by firebrand freethinking lesbian Choo Xin Yu.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Dating can feel like the elementary school playground sometimes.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The position of elementary education among the least susceptible to poverty might be surprising, but elementary school teachers are scarce and in demand.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Mac, as his middle school music teacher was affectionately known, would wrangle tickets to the opera, and the symphony, and the art museum, and the Broadway musical, for young Efrain Solis and his classmates.
    Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Brody's real-life wife joins the show as Abby, who's been described as Joanne's middle school nemesis.
    Samantha Highfill, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 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 Friday afternoon, around 200 guests including local journalists, influencers, shopping mall representatives, VIP shoppers, 12 local primary school students and a living buddha witnessed the explosive work live.
    Denni Hu, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2025
  • One in three primary school teachers were on strike nationwide, and nearly one in two walked off the job in Paris, the FSU-SNUipp union said.
    Reuters, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025

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