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Recent Examples of public school
Irvine public schools, currently in a 10-school Pacific Coast Conference that includes three private schools, want to join the Coast View Conference, an all-public school group in south Orange County.
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Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
Both of my parents are college graduates and decided to raise their kids in a neighborhood in New Jersey that specifically had a great public school system.
—R29 Team, Refinery29, 8 Sep. 2025
Only 127 of Indiana's 351 public school districts — or 36% — submitted mandatory injury data for the statewide report.
—IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025
Each episide of the series, which debuted its first season on YouTube in fall 2024, sees a celebrity visit a public school classroom for a day to meet students and attempt to teach them new skills.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
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Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
Both of my parents are college graduates and decided to raise their kids in a neighborhood in New Jersey that specifically had a great public school system.
—R29 Team, Refinery29, 8 Sep. 2025
Only 127 of Indiana's 351 public school districts — or 36% — submitted mandatory injury data for the statewide report.
—IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025
Each episide of the series, which debuted its first season on YouTube in fall 2024, sees a celebrity visit a public school classroom for a day to meet students and attempt to teach them new skills.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for public school
- high school
- trade school
- junior high school
- common school
- middle school
- secondary school
- grammar school
- senior high school
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Mizzou won 24-10, and the nectar of victory was especially sweet for MU tight end Michael Egnew, who was recruited by both schools in high school.—
Quentin Corpuel,
Kansas City Star,
6 Sep. 2025
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Like their characters, the ensemble has made big choices since graduating from high school, including whether to go or pass on college in the name of, or despite, their burgeoning careers.—
Abbey White,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Sep. 2025
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Wesley Gratzer earned his FFA American Degree by way of Wyotech, a trade school focused on auto and diesel skills in Laramie, Wyoming.—
Regina Elling,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Sep. 2025
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Pillar points to the report, which found that 76% of Gen Z say college was actively encouraged in high school, but only 31% remember trade school even being mentioned.—
Mark C. Perna,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Mayor Shiro Suzuki, along with members of the Nagasaki City Council, 16 junior high school students, and others, are in St. Paul to commemorate 70 years of partnership as sister cities.—
Alex Derosier,
Twin Cities,
22 Aug. 2025
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Today Vineyard is an international body of churches, but at the time one of its only chapters met in Dad’s old junior high school.—
Nancy Walecki,
The Atlantic,
7 Aug. 2025
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The common school movement also advocated for the right of girls to attend public schools—the first co-educational high school in America only opened in 1840—which became widespread by the 1870s.—
Richard Stengel,
TIME,
15 Feb. 2025
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Indiana code requires the court to forfeit the bond of a defendant who fails to appear in court and transfer the bond amount to the state common school fund, according to the audit.—
Alexandra Kukulka,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Dec. 2024
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Roughly 55% of students enrolled in the accounts program for the 2025-26 school year are in kindergarten through fifth grade, while 23% are in middle school and 22% are in high school, according to Smith.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
12 Sep. 2025
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In middle school cafeterias, high school hallways and across college campuses, Charlie Kirk's death spread phone to phone.—
Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Inspired by the colonial Singapore gangsters rulers, four girls, at a modern-day regimented elite secondary school form their own gang cam-recording petty acts of rebellion, led by firebrand freethinking lesbian Choo Xin Yu.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
7 Sep. 2025
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During a soccer game in secondary school, Kamara accidentally fouled his friend, who fell and broke his arm.—
Sophia Li,
NPR,
17 Aug. 2025
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But what can’t be turned into banter is the fact that Dyer’s mother was responsible for cooking much of that food—at the very school young Geoff attended before grammar school.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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The facility was also home to a grammar school for orphans, choirboys and boys who lived on the hospital’s land.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 June 2025
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Two senior high school students at the San Diego Unified School District encouraged their peers in a blog post to avoid participating in the challenge.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
21 May 2025
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Nothing was normal about this all-star matchup, which pitted 99 of the South Bay’s best senior high school football players against each other on North and South teams.—
Christian Babcock,
The Mercury News,
2 Feb. 2025
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“Public school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/public%20school. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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