secondary school

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Recent Examples of secondary school The secondary school was briefly placed on lockdown before the pursuit continued. Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026 Players still in secondary school are now potentially eligible, like college players, to sign lucrative Name, Image and Likeness sponsorship contracts. Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026 Have dependents who attend a primary or secondary school in California. Alexiah Syrai Olsen, Sacbee.com, 7 Apr. 2026 But the stakes of state legislation that would create new hurdles for immigrant children to attend elementary and secondary school would arguably be much higher. William McCorkle, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for secondary school
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Noun
  • Some other basics include pull-ups, squats and endurance challenges, like running a mile — the kind of basics included in an elementary school fitness assessment.
    Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026
  • Watson and Williams were friends since elementary school, ran track together in high school, and stayed close during their college years—during which Watson was a student athlete at UIC.
    Victor Jacobo, CBS News, 17 May 2026
Noun
  • Pinea Matoshi, who plays Dua with a vulnerable yet understated intensity, was discovered during a search through every primary school and high school in Prishtina, Kosova, Basholli’s hometown.
    Roberto Prieto, Variety, 14 May 2026
  • Lauryn, a primary school teacher, had an uncomplicated pregnancy, but things took a turn during labor and her daughter Lois was stillborn.
    Gina Kalsi, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
Noun
  • Those margins are substantial at the elite high school level.
    Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
  • Those of us who paid attention in high school social studies know that only Congress can declare war.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • In December 2019, school district officials sent documentation of Agan’s firing, along with details of their investigation, to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, California’s educator licensing agency, as state law requires for public school teachers who resign or are fired for misconduct.
    Holly McDede, ProPublica, 12 May 2026
  • This school year alone, the TEA reports that Texas saw 75,000 fewer public school students.
    Andrea Lucia, CBS News, 12 May 2026
Noun
  • Next year, the city’s junior high school campuses will have a more restrictive policy that includes limiting cellphone use during lunch.
    Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 11 May 2026
  • An upcoming rally at a Chino Hills junior high school celebrating America's 250th birthday is creating some confusion and tension among parents.
    Zach Boetto, CBS News, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • The Denver Post will present the April Heinrichs Award to an extraordinary senior high school girls soccer player from Colorado who’s also a star in the classroom and the community.
    The Denver Post, Denver Post, 1 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • His younger sister in middle school plays, too.
    Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026
  • How Agan Returned to the Classroom As the state considered the matter, Agan applied for a job at a Sacramento middle school about an hour away from Rodriguez High in May 2020.
    Holly McDede, ProPublica, 12 May 2026
Noun
  • The son of a minor industrialist in Karachi, Naqvi studied at a British-style grammar school and then the London School of Economics, before working at Amex and Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm that would later be destroyed in the Enron scandal.
    Hettie O'Brien, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026
  • After the school board decided not to appeal, the students returned to the grammar school.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026

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“Secondary school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secondary%20school. Accessed 18 May. 2026.

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