SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Synonyms: 30 Similar Words

senior high school

noun

as in high school

US 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 The former five-star prospect missed his entire senior high school season and freshman college season due to a torn ACL, reinjuring the same knee that had already been surgically repaired. — Tony Catalina, Austin American Statesman, 4 Feb. 2026 Principals could designate supervised areas where more senior high school students can briefly use their phones for multifactor authentication. — Corinne Brion, The Conversation, 4 Feb. 2026 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 The couple moved to Long Prairie in 1963, where Everett continued his 35-year teaching career in both junior and senior high school science. — Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 20 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for senior high school

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Noun

The hearing comes about two years after the attack at the high school, the deadliest school shooting in Georgia history.

— Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 28 July 2026
Valdosta is the newest school to join a multimillion-dollar trend accelerating across Georgia high school football programs.

— Jack Leo, AJC.com, 28 July 2026

Definition of high school

Noun

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
Japanese scientists studied university and junior high school soccer players of varying skill levels to study dribbling dynamics, focusing on the scissors feint.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 30 June 2026

Definition of junior high school

Noun

Newspapers are run by them, public school art and music programs rely on them, as do museums, symphonies, ballets and operas.

— Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026
The system currently in place for public school educators is a patchwork with a fair number of gaps.

— Holly McDede, ProPublica, 31 July 2026

Definition of public school

Noun

Part of the summer will be preparing George for what is ahead at secondary school, namely from William, who also attended Eton.

— Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 29 July 2026
In early February, a Canadian 18-year-old named Jesse Van Rootselaar shot and killed five students at Tumbler Ridge secondary school before turning the gun on herself.

— Frank Landymore, Futurism, 23 July 2026

Definition of secondary school

Noun

Dumarce in 2019 was arrested by the Sacramento Police Department on suspicion of exposing himself to and then attempting to kidnap a 13-year-old girl outside of a Meadowview elementary school, according to previous Sacramento Bee reporting.

— Margaret Baker, Sacbee.com, 31 July 2026
Smith eventually received a master’s degree in education and taught music to elementary school students in New York City before retiring in the 2000s.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 July 2026

Definition of elementary school

Noun

But now the Orange County School Board is poised to ban e-bikes and e-scooters from elementary and middle school campuses and allow them only at high schools, and only if the student has a driver’s license.

— Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2026
For example, Pines Collegiate Academy (41%) will be in its second year of a transition from a middle school to a 6-12, while Silver Shores STEAM Academy in Miramar (45%) is in the middle of a transition from an elementary school to a K-8.

— Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 26 July 2026

Definition of middle school

Noun

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
This has been compounded by massive cuts in international aid and a Taliban government that has sidelined half of Afghanistan’s population, denying women and girls education beyond primary school and banning them from the vast majority of jobs.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026

Definition of primary school

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