junior high school

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Recent Examples of junior high school Police said the incident began with a physical altercation at a north-area junior high school, which officials did not name. Sacbee.com, 15 Sep. 2025 Students returned to District 148’s 10 early childhood, elementary and junior high schools last week. Chicago Tribune, 28 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 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 See All Example Sentences for junior high school
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Noun
  • Acuff won a high school state championship at the Breslin Center in 2023.
    Matt Byrne, Arkansas Online, 9 Nov. 2025
  • After a dedication ceremony at his former high school, Dak Prescott said losing Kneeland left him with a heavy heart.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 8 Nov. 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
  • Loucks added national context, citing information from the 2024 National Assessment of Education Progress that said just 31% of fourth-grade public school students nationwide performed at or above the proficient level on the reading assessment.
    Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Researchers followed more than 800 students and staff members from a large public school district in Kansas City, Missouri, from November 2022 through May 2023.
    Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • After graduating with a degree in history from the University of Ghana, Mahama taught at a secondary school before pursuing a post-graduate degree in social psychology in Moscow, graduating in 1988.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
  • There's no school for Vrana's two older children, who travel to Fourni for secondary school by ferry.
    Sarah McCammon, NPR, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • At the same time, across the border, the Illinois governor delivered an address asking federal officials to suspend operations through the holiday weekend after their agents deployed tear gas and interrupted a Chicago grammar school’s Halloween festivities.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Jukes dabbled in basketball in grammar school before deciding to concentrate on volleyball.
    Tony Baranek, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • His label pioneered the industry’s intensive training system, recruiting performers as young as elementary school age and putting them through years of rigorous preparation.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Broncos quarterback Bo Nix had just started elementary school when his new teammate made his pro debut.
    Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In 2007, McKeller released her first book, Math Doesn’t Suck, demystifying concepts like fractions, decimals, percents, and algebra for girls in middle school.
    Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 5 Nov. 2025
  • As of her gubernatorial win, Sherrill and Hedberg's younger son, Ike, is a sophomore at Montclair High School, while Marit is in middle school at Montclair Kimberley Academy.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Peasley, 13, plans to attend trade school to earn her cosmetology license, and later pursue a degree to become a financial adviser.
    Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2025
  • With birth rates declining and some Americans favoring trade school or going directly to the workforce after high school, universities are preparing for potentially catastrophic declines in enrollment in coming years.
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025

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