Thesaurus results for PRIMARY SCHOOL

primary school

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as in secondary 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 Voting results are in for the Republican and Democratic primary school board races across six suburbs in Shelby County. — Corey Davis, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 7 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 See All Example Sentences for primary school

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The killing took place last October at the secondary school in Selangor, near Kuala Lumpur, defense attorney Kitson Foong said, per the Independent.

— Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026
Murphy noted that George, however, is the first future monarch to attend a secondary school like Eton in the age of smartphones and social media, requiring even more privacy precautions than in the past.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of secondary school

Noun

For example, a smartwatch in elementary school, then a basic phone in early middle school, then a restricted smartphone later, with each step tied to how your child handled the previous one.

— Ashley Lynch, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2026
The app’s office sits a stone’s throw away from the Liangzhu ruins, on the second floor of a gray building that used to be an elementary school in the village.

— Afra Wang, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of elementary school

Noun

In academic performance, boys lag well behind girls in elementary school, high school, and college, where female undergraduates now outnumber their male peers roughly 2 to 1.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 21 Sep. 2026
Recommendations From the Star-Telegram, a story on a top high school baseball pitcher being ruled ineligible in Texas for transferring for athletic reasons.

— Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of high school

Noun

My professional experience, community service, public school involvement and commitment to listening.

— Miami Herald staff, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2026
School districts get the largest portion of property taxes and serve as a primary source of public school funding, according to the Illinois Department of Revenue.

— Elena Tittel, Chicago Tribune, 24 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

Fourteen other elementary schools, one high school, one middle school and one K-8 school were slightly fuller but under the 65% bar.

— Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2026
Flynn sent the texts just months before his wife Ashley, a beloved middle school volleyball coach, was fatally shot in the head inside their family’s suburban home in February, Watkins said.

— Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026

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