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
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Noun
  • Hadwick says more must be done to encourage young people to quit nicotine, noting that roughly 7% of California high school students currently report using nicotine products.
    Brady Halbleib, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • On his 18th birthday, the senior on the Irvine baseball team celebrated adulthood in glorious high school style.
    Martin Henderson, Oc Register, 9 Apr. 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
  • In 2016, the state approved a bill, SB 1413, that allowed public school districts to build affordable rental housing with low-income tax credits.
    Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • And Texas, a red state that is home to about one in 10 of the nation’s public school students, often helps set the agenda.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Raducanu attended Newstead Wood School, a highly selective secondary school in Orpington, Greater London.
    Laura Payne, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • After the school board decided not to appeal, the students returned to the grammar school.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • The Sacramento Police Department on Sunday night released body camera footage of an officer shooting a suspect near an elementary school last month in the Northgate area.
    Brandon Downs, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • While the Lake Nona name was already used for a high school and middle school, the elementary school was not located in the development itself.
    Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • That goes back to middle school and high school.
    Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Masayoshi Takanaka’s Journey From Tokyo to TikTok Takanaka, born in Tokyo in 1953, picked up the guitar in middle school, inspired by Western acts including Cream, The Beatles and Ten Years After.
    Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Submissions are being accepted in three categories, from students in grades K-8, high school students, and college and trade school students.
    Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • 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

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“Junior high school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junior%20high%20school. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.

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