as in high school
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Recent Examples of middle school
Educators say the regular interactions help students build relationships and develop social-emotional skills from middle school to high school.
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Alexa Liacko,
CBS News,
22 June 2026
Ava Seested, a senior, had started watching Kirk’s debates in middle school.
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Eliza Griswold,
New Yorker,
22 June 2026
There are Lutheran schools for elementary and middle school students scattered across the region, but high school is the missing gap.
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Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
21 June 2026
This sci-fi thriller, about a middle school science teacher who winds up on a space mission to save the world, makes the perfect gift.
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Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
21 June 2026
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Alexa Liacko,
CBS News,
22 June 2026
Ava Seested, a senior, had started watching Kirk’s debates in middle school.
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Eliza Griswold,
New Yorker,
22 June 2026
There are Lutheran schools for elementary and middle school students scattered across the region, but high school is the missing gap.
—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
21 June 2026
This sci-fi thriller, about a middle school science teacher who winds up on a space mission to save the world, makes the perfect gift.
—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
21 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for middle school
- high school
- public school
- junior high school
- grammar school
- secondary school
- elementary school
- trade school
- senior high school
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Ortega graduated from high school as an accomplished student-athlete and through his DACA status was able to earn a college degree and become a teacher.
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The community will feature two lakes, a 50-acre city park, 156 acres of commercial development, a 55-acre business park and 206 acres for two elementary schools, a middle school and a high school in Denton ISD.
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The two companies violated the law by repeatedly giving cash stipends and personal travel rewards to public school employees — primarily teachers — for organizing school trips and recruiting students for the trips, according to the State Ethics Commission.
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Cothiere and Hill are both active public school teachers.
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Families can enter the junior high school through the bus turnaround on North Conejo Avenue near the gym.
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The beginning of Operation Homecoming, the return of POWs, was scheduled for the same night as the junior high school’s Valentine’s Day dance, Saturday, February 10, 1973, just a few weeks after the official signing of the Paris Peace Accords, ending America’s military involvement in Vietnam.
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He was born in New York and grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, starting his grammar school’s first newspaper before writing a humor column for the newspaper while a student at Morristown High School.
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He was born in New York and grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, starting his grammar school’s first newspaper before writing a humor column for the newspaper while a student at Morristown High School.
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At 16, Elizabeth had just written her Basic Education Certificate Examination, an important academic milestone for junior secondary school students in Ghana seeking to advance to higher education.
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The couple has decided where the 12-year-old royal will attend secondary school.
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One such report is on an investigation into the strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed more than 165 people on the first day of the war, most of them children.
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In 2015, the actress joked to People that her husband had more cachet with their daughter’s peers than her when Charlotte was in elementary school.
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More than 90% of the children in the student advocate program were accepted into college, trade school or the military after graduating high school, according to program records.
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With only about a month left before graduation, eligible high school seniors across Los Angeles County still have time to claim scholarship funding worth up to $1,500 to pay for college, trade school or other education expenses.
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This would be required for elementary, junior and senior high schools.
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Yet running in a pro race in Europe after that senior high school season in 2004, Rupp came up more than 36 seconds off of Chapa’s time.
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“Middle school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/middle%20school. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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