Thesaurus results for PUBLIC SCHOOL

public school

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Definition of public school

as in high school

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Recent Examples of public school Magnets, similar to charter schools, can be completely separate schools with their own buildings, or housed within a particular section of a traditional public school. — Beth Lloyd, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2026 New York City's public school students are scheduled return to the classroom next week. — 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 School officials and the mayor of New Haven are at odds over the safety of the city’s public school buildings, even as teachers are set to welcome students back to school on Monday. — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 31 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for public school

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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

In 2020, a sheriff’s deputy shot trade school student Andres Guardado, 18, in the back several times, killing him.

— Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026
Whether students are considering college, trade school or another path altogether, families increasingly want evidence that the choice will pay off.

— Jason St. Angelo, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of trade 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

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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

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

Definition of middle school

Noun

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

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

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

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