kindergarten

noun

Definition of kindergartennext
as in school

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Recent Examples of kindergarten With the exception of a year in kindergarten, Elliott was homeschooled until entering Hamden Hall Country Day School at 14. — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2026 After-school programs geared toward transitional kindergarten or elementary school students can also be important for a neighborhood. — Kate Sequeira, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026 The numerous standards are key to preparing Head Start kids for kindergarten, said Ruth Friedman, who helped Democratic President Barack Obama's administration draft the regulations now in jeopardy. — ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026 In contrast, the district’s kindergarten class was only 18,700 and the 1st Grade class had about 21,000. — Austin Horn august 3, Miami Herald, 3 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
  • States typically decide which vaccines are required for school attendance, but Covid-19 vaccines are not on any of these lists.
    — Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Almanza was charged with threatening to commit an act of mass violence on school property and is currently being held on a $1 million bond in the Faulkner County jail.
    — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of school
Noun
  • For 42 years, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has named the annual Super 11, a class of Georgia’s top high school football seniors destined to become the next generation of football stars.
    — AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • People with a bachelor’s degree earn a median of 75% more over a lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
    — John Ketcham, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of high school
Noun
  • Reading scores of New York City public school students plummeted this past school year, erasing improvements in the subject recorded a year before, sparking calls from the teachers’ union for a change in approach.
    — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Some help from the state always was going to have to be part of the solution for the nation’s fourth-largest public school system.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of public school
Noun
  • Part of the summer will be preparing George for what is ahead at secondary school, namely from William, who also attended Eton.
    — Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 29 July 2026
  • In early February, a Canadian 18-year-old named Jesse Van Rootselaar shot and killed five students at Tumbler Ridge secondary school before turning the gun on herself.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 23 July 2026
Definition of secondary school
Noun
  • After-school programs geared toward transitional kindergarten or elementary school students can also be important for a neighborhood.
    — Kate Sequeira, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The first day of classes for the upcoming school year has been pushed back in the Bethel Park School District so that the district's new elementary school will be ready for students.
    — Jessica Riley, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of elementary school
Noun
  • So the Sephora Performance Center might as well be a junior high school gym.
    — Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The two remaining students already were of junior high school age and were in the midst of attending middle school in neighboring districts as part of an agreement that McAuley leaders reached with District 33 in the late 1980s.
    — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026
Definition of junior high school
Noun
  • Many schools don’t devote nearly enough time to letting kids play, which is one of the key ways primary school-age children learn.
    — Kara Alaimo, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
  • He was revisited by a vague feeling of physical ineptitude that’d haunted him since childhood; failing to throw the ball properly on sports day at primary school, his father watching.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
Definition of primary school
Noun
  • The monsters are mostly metaphorical in this book, but the middle school emotions are vividly real.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The school will have a full gymnasium and locker room, with middle school sports such as track and basketball.
    — Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of middle school

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