as in high school
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an educational institution that includes the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades and often also the 9th grade
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Recent Examples of senior high school
During the early 1960s, Cher was dating a senior high school boy who lived down the street from her family.
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Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2024
Our education should include practical lifetime skills such as a general financial class in junior or senior high school, civics, and unadulterated American history.
—Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2024
At Wayne Local Schools, Shelby Herlihy is the new assistant principal at the junior/senior high school and Kevin Wright is the new director of student services and special education.
—Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2024
The bond issue would have paid for: Classroom additions to the junior and senior high schools along with Spaulding Elementary School.
—Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 21 Mar. 2024
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Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2024
Our education should include practical lifetime skills such as a general financial class in junior or senior high school, civics, and unadulterated American history.
—Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2024
At Wayne Local Schools, Shelby Herlihy is the new assistant principal at the junior/senior high school and Kevin Wright is the new director of student services and special education.
—Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2024
The bond issue would have paid for: Classroom additions to the junior and senior high schools along with Spaulding Elementary School.
—Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 21 Mar. 2024
See All Example Sentences for senior high school
Recent Examples of Synonyms for senior high school
- high school
- junior high school
- public school
- secondary school
- elementary school
- grammar school
- middle school
- primary school
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What makes Conner's career switch all the more surprising: His high school isn't in the rolling hills of rural Wisconsin.—
Mia Thurow,
jsonline.com,
9 Aug. 2025
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For most, this list will change over time, and often doesn’t start taking shape until high school.—
Robert Cole,
Forbes.com,
8 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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None has worked at a real paper before, but a couple of good sports tout their experience writing a junior high school term paper, and the other his social media posts from Twitter.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
7 Aug. 2025
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As a mother of two boys in public schools and the product of public schools myself, this news was disturbing to say the least.—
Andrea Campbell,
Time,
6 Aug. 2025
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The Courier Journal sent questions about SB 181 to every public school district in the state, totaling about 230.—
Ruby Grisin,
The Courier-Journal,
6 Aug. 2025
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The cost of elementary and secondary school lunches rose 3.3% in May 2025 relative to May 2024, according to a consumer price index report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.—
Jessica Dickler,
CNBC,
14 Aug. 2025
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The new tax law allows up to $10,000 in tax-free distributions this year from section 529 plans to be used for additional educational expenses in connection with enrollment or attendance at an elementary or secondary school, including private schools and religious schools.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
9 Aug. 2025
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Erin and her family had moved to Miami Beach in December from Chile, where her elementary school held a Mass in her honor.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
4 Aug. 2025
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The suspect arrested in the murder of an Arkansas couple in front of their children at Devil's Den State Park was an elementary school teacher who'd been placed on administrative leave at a school district two years ago for improper conduct.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
2 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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Tyx has lived in the Kansas City area for four years and previously taught middle school Spanish.—
Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
5 Aug. 2025
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The project earned Rina an award as one of the top 30 middle school scientists in 2020 from the Society for Science, a Washington DC nonprofit.—
Michael Cuglietta,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 Aug. 2025
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The Idaho Fairness in Women's Sports Act prohibits transgender women from participating in women's sports from the beginning of primary school to university.—
Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
3 July 2025
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Some 36 government primary schools were shut down in the two academic years leading up to 2024 in Goa, India's smallest state, according to the local daily newspaper The Goan Everyday.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 June 2025
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“Senior high school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/senior%20high%20school. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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