junior high school

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Recent Examples of junior high school While days were spent instructing junior high school students in the Washington area, Flack's nights coalesced around her budding music career. Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2025 France saw a similar disconnect in 2020, when French junior high school teacher Samuel Paty was murdered by an Islamist extremist, after showing images of the prophet in class. Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Jan. 2025 Evanston Academy will turn into a junior high school for seventh and eighth graders who previously attended Withrow. Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 11 Dec. 2024 Students as young as 12 at the nearby junior high school also have been issued tickets. Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, 25 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for junior high school
Recent Examples of Synonyms for junior high school
Noun
  • Before attending Princeton, Blackburn was a standout high school student chosen as one of 2,500 students for the National Merit Scholarship in 2019, according to WAVE.
    Jonathan Limehouse, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
  • In high school in Idaho, Loveland was all-everything.
    Kevin Fishbain, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • About six companies specially recruit junior and senior high school students every fall, according to its website.
    Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • That drop has stabilized in recent years, according to the National Catholic Educational Association, as the pandemic brought broader shifts in enrollment away from traditional public schooling (though most kids still attend public schools).
    Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The tax credits are off-limits to public school students, while the grants went predominantly to this group.
    Audrey Dutton, Idaho Statesman, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In France and Switzerland, secondary schools are beginning to use Beekee devices to give students digital access without exposing them fully to the internet during class.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Jaz Johnson, a 23-year-old from Brighton, is a pastoral officer (a British cross between a social worker, guidance counselor, and student support staff) at a local secondary school.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The settlement boasted both a high school and a grammar school – yet the lecture hall of the complex was only unearthed this past March.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • As a kid in Los Angeles’s Chatsworth neighborhood, growing up on a property that had once belonged to cowboy star Roy Rogers, Kilmer began studying acting in grammar school, already dreaming of emulating Hollywood’s eccentric nonpareil, Marlon Brando.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Ware said three public elementary schools in the upscale suburb of San Rafael were burglarized: Lucas Valley, Mary Silveira and Venetia Valley.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2025
  • Those laws have not been tested much so far, but a notable case occurred this month at two elementary schools in Los Angeles.
    Soumya Karlamangla, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Her first inspiration: Catherine C. Blackwell, a pioneer in African and African-American studies and the namesake of Brewer’s middle school.
    Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 1 May 2025
  • The beloved quartet of novels follows members of a middle school track team; each student has their own book, including Ghost, a finalist for the National Book Award, Patina, Sunny and Lu.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • In exchange for their volunteer service, members receive modest living stipends and money for college or trade school expenses.
    Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The national scholarship is paid directly to the American college, vocational, technical or trade school of the winner’s choice within five years after high school graduation.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025

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