junior high school

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Recent Examples of junior high school Students returned to District 148’s 10 early childhood, elementary and junior high schools last week. Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025 Mayor Shiro Suzuki, along with members of the Nagasaki City Council, 16 junior high school students, and others, are in St. Paul to commemorate 70 years of partnership as sister cities. Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 22 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for junior high school
Noun
  • The relationship goes back to Mahomes’ high school days in Whitehouse, Texas.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2025
  • On Thursday night, meanwhile, high school student and aspiring dermatologist Mailyn Marsh, of Missouri, was named this year’s Miss Teen USA, a companion title for contestants aged 14 to 19.
    Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 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
  • When determining the best suburb for each state, Niche examined factors such as public school grades, crime and safety, cost of living, family amenities and diversity, among other things.
    Jordan Green, Nashville Tennessean, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Funds from the Walk have also enabled public school education foundation to reduce class sizes; update labs, libraries and facilities, and protect teachers’ jobs.
    Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Nearly three-quarters of the 119 million girls out of school worldwide are of secondary school-age, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • 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
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
  • Carter Taylor of Kansas City, an elementary school educator and legislative chair for the Kansas City Federation of Teachers, said efforts to privatize education should scare parents.
    PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Written by Mahdi Asghari Azghadi and directed by Puya Mofid, this searing Iranian drama unfolds within the confines of an elementary school, where a teacher’s harsh discipline leaves a young Black student traumatized and voiceless.
    Essie Assibu, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Brody has been married to Meester, who joins season 2 as Joanne's former middle school nemesis named Abby, since February 2014.
    Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • He was involved in basketball through middle school, baseball through his freshman year and football through being a junior.
    Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Technical colleges and trade school options have become increasingly popular, especially since the pandemic.
    RACHEL SPECTOR, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
  • 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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