Thesaurus results for PRIMARY SCHOOL

primary school

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as in secondary school

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Recent Examples of primary school Improving the economy was a talking point, for example, when Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf held a recent video call with the family of a child killed by an American airstrike on a primary school that killed 156 people, mostly pupils. — Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2026 According to a new study of children’s reading habits in the UK and Ireland, most boys are still reading primary school level books (in Europe, primary school is the rough equivalent of elementary school in the US). — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 1 July 2026 My 5-year-old daughter will start primary school in Italy this September. — Cassandra Tresl, CNBC, 27 June 2026 Tomoko Nagane, the primary school principal in Hashikami, in Aomori prefecture, told NHK that classes were canceled for the day and that all children returned home safely. — Mari Yamaguchi, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for primary school

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Noun

In 2014, Boko Haram took almost three hundred girls from a secondary school in Chibok; the whereabouts of some ninety are still unknown.

— Alexis Okeowo, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Part of the summer will be preparing George for what is ahead at secondary school, namely from William, who also attended Eton.

— Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 29 July 2026

Definition of secondary school

Noun

Soil samples from the two elementary school campuses, City Terrace and Christopher Dena, exceeded the applicable regulatory screening levels of lead, which were flagged for further evaluation.

— Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
Music lessons followed, and English instruction was extended to elementary school students.

— Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of elementary school

Noun

Hilliard served as the administrator of Colorado’s Nike Elite program from 2021 to 2025, managing funds from the sportswear giant’s program to provide high school athletes with mentorship and equipment.

— Matt Moret, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2026
Every year, the AJC chooses the 11 top graduating high school football players in the state.

— AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of high school

Noun

Reading scores of New York City public school students plummeted this past school year, erasing improvements in the subject recorded a year before, sparking calls from the teachers’ union for a change in approach.

— Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2026
Some help from the state always was going to have to be part of the solution for the nation’s fourth-largest public school system.

— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of public school

Noun

So the Sephora Performance Center might as well be a junior high school gym.

— Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
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

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

Optimal size devices will differ, depending on the individual middle school student.

— BestReviews, Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2026
Kayleigh Smith, a middle school art teacher in North Providence, Rhode Island, brought her Scottish Straight cat, Pinecone, to class for the better part of the last school year.

— Medara Udoekong, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of middle school

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