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primary school

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Recent Examples of primary school Any students attending primary school in either district won't be able to use their phones, while high school students will face restrictions. — Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2026 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, 15 July 2026 This has been compounded by massive cuts in international aid and a Taliban government that has sidelined half of Afghanistan’s population, denying women and girls education beyond primary school and banning them from the vast majority of jobs. — ABC News, 8 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for primary school

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Noun

Seventy percent of Gen Z women who started playing sports continued through the end of high or secondary school, compared with 62% of Baby Boomers.

— Brittany Talarico, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of secondary school

Noun

At an elementary school, Salomon picks up three trash bins full of cafeteria food refuse, including what appears to be leftover Sloppy Joe meat in a clear bag swarmed by flies.

— Audrey McGlinchy, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Bush was visiting an elementary school in Sarasota, Florida, when Chief of Staff Andrew Card informed him that planes had struck the World Trade Center.

— Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of elementary school

Noun

His high school, college and NFL jerseys hang in the hallway of the only school in town (his 2019 graduating class of 23 people is considered big here).

— Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
About 7% of high school athletes go on to compete in any sport in college, according to NCAA participation data, and less than 2% receive an academic scholarship.

— Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of high school

Noun

New York City's public school students are scheduled return to the classroom next week.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026
New York — New York City is banning the use of generative artificial intelligence for public school students from 2K through 8th grade, part of a larger move to restrict classroom technology in the nation’s largest school district.

— Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of public school

Noun

From medicine to computer science After his kindergarten experience watching a brain surgery video, Alwakeel had little opportunity to pursue his medical dreams in elementary and junior high school.

— Beth Reese Cravey, Florida Times-Union, 27 Aug. 2026
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

Definition of junior high 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

This would be required for elementary, junior and senior high schools.

— Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 May 2026
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.

— Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 25 Apr. 2026

Definition of senior high school

Noun

His parents got divorced in middle school, and that forced him to find his independence.

— Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
New York City's schools will ban elementary and middle school students from using generative AI tools during the upcoming school year, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Wednesday.

— Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026

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