magnet school

noun

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as in charter school

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Recent Examples of magnet school Before moving to the online school in eighth grade, Clark attended middle school at San Diego Creative and Performing Arts School, a public magnet school with a focus on visual and performing arts. — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2026 Capital Region Education Council, which markets and oversees the magnet schools, routinely advertises for its schools, holds recruiting fairs and conducts outreach to draw students. — Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 14 May 2026 They are also required to hold two parent-teacher conferences annually, and students in those attendance zones receive priority points in the district’s magnet school admissions process. — Teresa Liu, Daily News, 25 Feb. 2026 Suit targets magnet school policies Magnet schools are special programs established decades ago to promote voluntary integration. — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for magnet school
Recent Examples of Synonyms for magnet school
  1. charter school
  2. high school
  3. elementary school
  4. public school
  5. secondary school
  6. common school
  7. grammar school
  8. junior high school
Noun
  • Superintendents, charter school leaders, private school administrators, college presidents, business executives, and workforce leaders must be willing to see one another differently.
    — Gennaro Piraino, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • Many of those students spoke out in support of the charter school at last week’s State Board of Education meeting.
    — Molly Gibbs, Mercury News, 19 July 2026
Definition of charter school
Noun
  • The grades that students receive in high school and college can decide their futures.
    — Laura Link, Washington Post, 21 July 2026
  • In alphabetical order, here are the top running backs ahead of the Georgia high school football season.
    — Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 21 July 2026
Definition of high school
Noun
  • Louder plays Imani, a Black elementary school teacher who butts heads with Ben, a white executive, and wakes up the next day in his body after a mysterious escape room adventure.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 21 July 2026
  • Later, his elementary school music teacher encouraged him to switch from drums to bass.
    — Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of elementary school
Noun
  • The growth comes at a time when public school enrollment in South Florida has seen a sharp decline.
    — Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 25 July 2026
  • Chris Affleck graduated from Harvard, pursued a career as a public school teacher, and taught literacy classes in Mississippi, the obituary shared.
    — Mason Leib, ABC News, 24 July 2026
Definition of public school
Noun
  • 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
  • In September, the future king will head off to secondary school at Eton College, his father Prince William’s alma mater.
    — Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 22 July 2026
Definition of secondary school
Noun
  • Hand in hand with that was the rise of literacy and the universal common school movement.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
  • Being outside of the scope of the requirement of the statutory definition of the common school system, charter schools fail to meet the definition required of a common school.
    — Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 20 Feb. 2026
Definition of common school
Noun
  • Lowden and Smith were grammar school classmates and later served time together in Wethersfield.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026
  • Can states ban transgender kids from playing sports in grammar school, when boys and girls routinely play on the same teams?
    — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 30 June 2026
Definition of grammar school
Noun
  • 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
  • Japanese scientists studied university and junior high school soccer players of varying skill levels to study dribbling dynamics, focusing on the scissors feint.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 30 June 2026
Definition of junior high school

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