secondary school

noun

Definition of secondary schoolnext
as in elementary school

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Recent Examples of secondary school According to the law, officers generally cannot arrest someone under SB 4 at a public or private primary or secondary school. — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 June 2026 At 16, Elizabeth had just written her Basic Education Certificate Examination, an important academic milestone for junior secondary school students in Ghana seeking to advance to higher education. — Sarah Ferguson, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026 Sent to an elite secondary school in Tunisia as one of its only female students alongside 3,500 boys, Bouchoucha was offered a very different perspective from a young age. — Marcus Lim, Variety, 15 June 2026 In the Boston case, the states argued that the policy impedes their ability to hire primary and secondary school educators and to staff public colleges and universities, will stymie academic research and will lead to a decline in medical workers. — Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for secondary school
Recent Examples of Synonyms for secondary school
  1. elementary school
  2. primary school
  3. high school
  4. public school
  5. junior high school
  6. senior high school
  7. middle school
  8. grammar school
Noun
  • After-school programs geared toward transitional kindergarten or elementary school students can also be important for a neighborhood.
    — Kate Sequeira, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The first day of classes for the upcoming school year has been pushed back in the Bethel Park School District so that the district's new elementary school will be ready for students.
    — Jessica Riley, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of elementary school
Noun
  • 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, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
Definition of primary school
Noun
  • For 42 years, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has named the annual Super 11, a class of Georgia’s top high school football seniors destined to become the next generation of football stars.
    — AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • People with a bachelor’s degree earn a median of 75% more over a lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.
    — John Ketcham, New York Daily News, 3 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
  • 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
  • The monsters are mostly metaphorical in this book, but the middle school emotions are vividly real.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Aug. 2026
  • The school will have a full gymnasium and locker room, with middle school sports such as track and basketball.
    — Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of middle 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

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“Secondary school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secondary%20school. Accessed 10 Aug. 2026.

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