junior high school

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Recent Examples of junior high school The Cups 4 Cancer fundraiser will be dedicated to Austin’s former junior high school teammate Dylan Krestan, who has battled Hodgkin lymphoma for the last several months. Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2025 The controversy in Loudoun County came the day after parents and residents clashed at a school board meeting in the Chicago area on Monday after a trans junior high school student won multiple events at a local track meet. Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 22 May 2025 Students at Evanston Academy, which would turn into the district's junior high school for the east corridor, would go to Frederick Douglass instead. Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 9 Dec. 2024 That was March 2, 2013 when Great Valley lost by six points to Abington High School during his junior high school season. Tim Casey, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for junior high school
Recent Examples of Synonyms for junior high school
Noun
  • What makes Conner's career switch all the more surprising: His high school isn't in the rolling hills of rural Wisconsin.
    Mia Thurow, jsonline.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • For most, this list will change over time, and often doesn’t start taking shape until high school.
    Robert Cole, Forbes.com, 8 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But what can’t be turned into banter is the fact that Dyer’s mother was responsible for cooking much of that food—at the very school young Geoff attended before grammar school.
    James Wood, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
  • The facility was also home to a grammar school for orphans, choirboys and boys who lived on the hospital’s land.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
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
  • For-profits schools, though, have largely been spared and Trump has suggested redirecting billions from Ivy League universities to trade schools.
    Chris Quintana, USA Today, 26 July 2025
  • The program enabled the employee to attend trade school at night while working full time at IREN and receiving hands-on experience and mentorship.
    Andy Tonsing, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025

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