kindergarten

noun

Definition of kindergartennext
as in school

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Recent Examples of kindergarten In 2013, lawmakers created EdChoice Expansion, initially allowing kindergarten students whose family income was at or below 200% of the federal poverty guidelines to qualify, regardless of how their local public schools performed. — Bilin Lin, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026 Initially the Hope Scholarship was limited to students attending public school or children who would enter kindergarten. — Henry Culvyhouse, ProPublica, 19 Oct. 2026 The school enrolls more than 400 students from kindergarten to 5th grade. — Chad De Guzman, Time, 16 Oct. 2026 Justin Penfield's 6-year-old son was in his kindergarten classroom at Silver Rail yesterday when the shooting occurred. — Irene Byon, NBC news, 16 Oct. 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
  • While Usher was off basking in the afterglow of Confessions, maturing into a divorcé in the mid-2000s, the R&B world was already priming itself for a new-school successor.
    — Clover Hope, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Many voters thank him ​for pulling Serbia from economic obscurity and orchestrating a period of sustained modernisation including new highways, railways, schools and hospitals.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of school
Noun
  • Two high school student groups welcomed some concessions but called for protests to continue.
    — Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
  • But Harvie, a former high school social studies teacher and county commissioner, is still a long shot to win.
    — Justin Papp, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of high school
Noun
  • Although the breach involves California's public school system, the people whose records were stolen may now live anywhere in the United States.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026
  • School’s Chancellor Kamar Samuels held a moment of silence for the 11-year-old boy, who attended a Bronx public school, at an unrelated event Wednesday night.
    — Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of public school
Noun
  • Tan-Gillespie ultimately stayed with the chain throughout secondary school, later rising to assistant general manager.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Some primary and secondary school exams scheduled for those days were also postponed in Mauritius and on the nearby islands of Rodrigues and Agaléga, while international exams would go ahead.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of secondary school
Noun
  • Say your child attended elementary school in Los Angeles before your family relocated to Texas.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026
  • In January 2026, a driverless Waymo struck a nine-year-old pedestrian near an elementary school in Santa Monica, California.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of elementary school
Noun
  • In a bittersweet essay, Dolores’ daughter Juanita once recalled how her mother forgot to pick her up from junior high school.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Goldee’s was opened in 2020 by former junior high school classmates Jonny White, Jalen Heard and Lane Milne.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of junior high school
Noun
  • Barrett noted a berm already exists along the primary school's south side.
    — Randy Moll, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Her experience as a primary school music teacher reflected a wider lifelong love of music, and much of her work centred around this.
    — Stephanie Bridger-Linning, Vanity Fair, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of primary school
Noun
  • Billy Idol was on hand as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Save the Music teamed to provide a California middle school with a music education program.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The case originates from a change in admissions policy that began a decade ago, when a consulting group was hired to evaluate how the school system chose students for its middle school magnet programs.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of middle school

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