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
  • Marco Cenabre, for example, teaches literature at New Haven Academy, a public high school in New Haven.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The Knox’s were detained after the brawl at the high school dissipated last year.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The fourth annual Home Run Derby, a fundraising event that supports scholarships for South Bay senior high school athletes, is set for Nov. 22 at Eastlake High School.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Wang Le, Zichen and Haoyue's computer skills teacher at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Affiliated Primary School, a public school, said that the Ministry of Education has enacted a new framework.
    John Ruwitch, NPR, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Candidates for public office, including mayor, City Council, and public school boards, often run unopposed in elections after receiving a Caucus endorsement.
    Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Prince George is also facing another major change, as he is set to turn 13 on July 22 and begin his secondary school career in the fall.
    Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025
  • These groups provide financial help to elementary and secondary school students from low- and middle-income families.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Collier won a place at a grammar school and then at Oxford.
    Sam Knight, New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • One month after Amber’s murder, Williams visited her daughter’s elementary school classmates.
    Emily Krauser, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
  • New Elementary School on Park Road CMS is constructing a new 45-classroom elementary school to serve students in Sedgefield and Dilworth, replacing Dilworth Elementary.
    Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 12 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • In middle school at Imagine International Academy, Swavay was quiet and dreamed of playing basketball.
    DeAsia Paige, AJC.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Beyond just growing some of the mangroves , students at New River have banded together to try and drum up community support for the project, particularly the members of the middle school’s Eco-Sharks club, overseen by Grisel Berrios, the school’s STEM teacher.
    Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Aside from trade school, students can also pursue apprenticeships, career-training programs, boot camps, industry certifications, and occupational licenses.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2025
  • After that, Wadsworth went to a trade school in Arizona before relocating to Charlotte and finding a home in NASCAR.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 19 Dec. 2025

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“Junior high school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junior%20high%20school. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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