kindergarten

noun

Definition of kindergartennext
as in school

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Recent Examples of kindergarten Texas does not keep track of student to teacher ratios after fourth grade, so most of the reassignments are expected to impact teachers of kindergarten to fourth grade. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Aug. 2026 The Imagination Library, which sends free books to children from birth until kindergarten, was inspired by Parton’s father, who never learned to read or write. — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026 Many have seen sharp declines in vaccination rates—kindergarten MMR vaccinations in Idaho, for instance, has seen a drop of 15 percentage points in the past decade. — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2026 Students use laptops and touch screens as early as kindergarten. — ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for kindergarten
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kindergarten
  1. school
  2. high school
  3. public school
  4. secondary school
  5. elementary school
  6. junior high school
  7. primary school
  8. middle school
Noun
  • Department store Macy’s highlights sporty prep, statement sneakers, denim, and activewear as key trends for the 2026 back-to-school period, chiming with analyst predictions.
    — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Students from elsewhere will need to check if the programs meet their state requirements, said Pam Downing, the school's director of communications, in an email.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of school
Noun
  • Erika looks on with the malevolent bemusement of a college cheerleader coming back to homecoming to judge her old high school squad.
    — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2026
  • In 2021, a teen was arrested after wounding two students and injuring two others in a shooting at a high school in Newport News, Virginia.
    — Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of high school
Noun
  • Over the past year, Winters led AI training for over 7,000 teachers, almost a third of Utah’s public school instructors.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The curriculum—a first for the local public school system—was also a bid to control communal loyalties in Hawaii, which the United States had annexed in 1898.
    — H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of public school
Noun
  • The ban has been in place long enough that an entire cohort of girls has passed through adolescence without stepping foot in a secondary school classroom.
    — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
  • In 2014, Boko Haram took almost three hundred girls from a secondary school in Chibok; the whereabouts of some ninety are still unknown.
    — Alexis Okeowo, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of secondary school
Noun
  • By people at churches, students and teachers at an elementary school, office workers, and anyone walking near the field.
    — Seth Emerson, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Eyde is an elementary school substitute teacher in the Independence School District, according to a news release from Candice Jamoles, a public affairs specialist for the Department of Justice.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of elementary school
Noun
  • Becerra was quiet and serious when Franco first met him in junior high school, but slowly warmed up to other students.
    — Ben Paviour August 17, Sacbee.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • So the Sephora Performance Center might as well be a junior high school gym.
    — Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of junior high school
Noun
  • The group’s harsh interpretation of Islamic rule excludes girls and women, who make up half of Afghanistan’s estimated 50 million people, from any meaningful education or employment opportunity, beyond primary school.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Years earlier, Luwi had fought to change the name of his children’s primary school to Gajdusek Memorial Community School.
    — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of primary school
Noun
  • More than 30 high and middle school students in the Ferndale Public Schools district earned hands-on experience, and for some, wages, as part of the district's Drone Apprenticeship Program.
    — DeJanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The West Ada School District seeks to make 90% of the day for elementary students and 80% of the day for middle school students screen-free.
    — Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of middle school

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