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Recent Examples of junior high school
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.
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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
The boys in our junior high school classes never went with us; they were involved in after-school sports.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2025
At six, the Hunt Volunteer Fire Department gathered in the cafeteria at the junior high school for its weekly meeting.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
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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
The boys in our junior high school classes never went with us; they were involved in after-school sports.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 1 Aug. 2025
At six, the Hunt Volunteer Fire Department gathered in the cafeteria at the junior high school for its weekly meeting.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for junior high school
- high school
- senior high school
- public school
- secondary school
- grammar school
- elementary school
- middle school
- trade school
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Attendance is free with proceeds benefiting the Artisan Alliance at Wishing Spring scholarship, which offers continuing support to high school students who pursue the arts in college.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
12 Oct. 2025
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The town’s only high school was for whites only, forcing Black students to travel to Fort Worth to go to school.—
Ciara McCarthy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
12 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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Cutting federal funding In a move that affects public school students across the country, the department has slashed hundreds of millions of dollars in grant funding for a variety of programs, including for mental health professionals and for training and supporting new teachers.—
Megan O’Matz,
ProPublica,
10 Oct. 2025
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Every spring, California public school students in third through eighth grade, as well as 11th-graders, take comprehensive, end-of-year standardized tests in English language arts and math as part of the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress, or CAASPP.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Oct. 2025
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Girls were notably banned from secondary school the next month, meaning that online education became one of the last avenues of hope.—
Zahra Nader,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025
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Sulaiman was in his third year of the Madrasah Tsanawiyah, or secondary school.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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One challenge from last year was raising her younger kids, one in elementary school and two in middle school, while balancing a full-time job.—
Elizabeth B. Kim,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
6 Oct. 2025
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Recognizing the potential of his religious pupils, Kamp set up a chess team at an elementary school near the Collective’s setup in Tonto Village.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
5 Oct. 2025
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Newsom, flanked by first partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom and state lawmakers, signed the measure at a middle school in Los Angeles.—
Sophie Austin,
Fortune,
9 Oct. 2025
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Her vision led to a private, Muslim school system with nearly 40 schools across the country, serving elementary and middle school-aged children.—
Everett Eaton,
jsonline.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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Indeed, a study earlier this summer from the American Staffing Association found one in three Americans would advise high school graduates to go to trade school over college—a push which was highest among baby boomer respondents.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
30 Sep. 2025
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Chad Phillip, an instructor at Fred’s Appliance Academy, a trade school in Ohio, has seen the average age of his classes drop considerably in recent years.—
Marquise Francis,
NBC news,
20 Sep. 2025
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“Junior high school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junior%20high%20school. Accessed 12 Oct. 2025.
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