junior high school

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Recent Examples of junior high school My junior high school yearbook picture drives that truth home. Josh Browning, Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025 As the mean girl of the town's junior high school, Amber uses her popularity to hurt Kat instead of treating her nicely. Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for junior high school
Recent Examples of Synonyms for junior high school
Noun
  • Seals and Crofts were native Texans who had known each other since high school and played together in various groups before becoming a duo, Seals & Crofts, in the late 1960s.
    Hillel Italie, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
  • An over-the-top hazing event involving members of a high school baseball team is under investigation in southeastern North Carolina, according to deputies.
    Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 26 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The Denver Post will present the April Heinrichs Award to an extraordinary senior high school girls soccer player from Colorado who’s also a star in the classroom and the community.
    The Denver Post, Denver Post, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Principals could designate supervised areas where more senior high school students can briefly use their phones for multifactor authentication.
    Corinne Brion, The Conversation, 4 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • This year, more than 2,600 OCPS students left public school to use those scholarships, also called vouchers, according to Step Up For Students, which administers most of Florida’s scholarships.
    Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2026
  • My father was a public school teacher.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • But the stakes of state legislation that would create new hurdles for immigrant children to attend elementary and secondary school would arguably be much higher.
    William McCorkle, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2026
  • United Teachers Los Angeles represents more than 30,000 classroom teachers, psychologists, attendance counselors, guidance counselors, nurses and secondary school librarians.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Meyers’ father, Michael, coached for 23 years at grammar schools and high schools on the South Side of Chicago.
    Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2026
  • The announcement Tuesday was accompanied by bagpipe music from the Chicago Stockyard Kitty Band, and a procession of St. Christina grammar school students.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • In August, fast-growing Star will welcome around 600 students to a new elementary school on North Pollard Lane.
    Noah Daly, Idaho Statesman, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Cajon Valley is a growing elementary school district serving nearly 18,000 students, among them many refugees and recent immigrants.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Ksenia Matson was a special education teacher at the middle school.
    Jermont Terry, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The pair met in middle school; Hammond was in seventh grade, and Betts was in eighth.
    Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Once a student grew up, the account holding that starting contribution and any additional funds their family contributed could have been used to help pay for education after high school, including college or trade school.
    R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The young teen was thinking about going to a trade school to learn about becoming a mechanic.
    Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 7 Mar. 2026

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“Junior high school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junior%20high%20school. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.

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