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
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.
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Christian Babcock, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2025
About six companies specially recruit junior and senior high school students every fall, according to its website.
—Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2025
During the early 1960s, Cher was dating a senior high school boy who lived down the street from her family.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2024
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
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Christian Babcock, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2025
About six companies specially recruit junior and senior high school students every fall, according to its website.
—Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2025
During the early 1960s, Cher was dating a senior high school boy who lived down the street from her family.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2024
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
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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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Lappe, in his first high school at-bat, delivered an RBI double.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2026
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The second big night of high school boys hockey section tournament play again went very much according to seed.—
Pioneer Press,
Twin Cities,
19 Feb. 2026
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Obviously, those people failed their junior high school math class.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
4 Jan. 2026
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Multiple vehicles were blocking the bus lane that day at the junior high school campus.—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
14 Dec. 2025
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Wu said the city’s public school system will be closed for a second straight day on Tuesday, and libraries and community centers won’t open until noon.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
24 Feb. 2026
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The Department of Health has started the rulemaking process of repealing requirements for Hepatitis B, varicella (chicken pox), Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib) and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines for public school attendance.—
Ana Goñi-Lessan,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Feb. 2026
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Oleh Kiper, the head of Ukraine’s Odesa region on the Black Sea, said drones damaged civilian and energy infrastructure facilities in the region, including a secondary school and an energy company’s warehouses.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2026
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The secondary school has just 175 students from Grades 7 to 12, according to the province’s website.—
Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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Nearly a hundred people attended a vigil at a South Side elementary school for the 17-year-old dancer who was killed in a car accident early Thursday morning.—
Laura Turbay,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Feb. 2026
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Five elementary school students and two drivers were injured in a serious collision involving a school bus and a work van on Thursday afternoon in Vernon.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
19 Feb. 2026
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The announcement Tuesday was accompanied by bagpipe music from the Chicago Stockyard Kitty Band, and a procession of St. Christina grammar school students.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
4 Feb. 2026
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Collier won a place at a grammar school and then at Oxford.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
19 Nov. 2025
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Burrows — who also coaches his daughter’s middle school team, baseball at North Harford and formerly led the Hawks’ boys basketball team — received a call from Patterson Mill boys basketball coach and athletic director Jeroud Clark last year asking to coach those familiar faces.—
Taylor Lyons,
Baltimore Sun,
25 Feb. 2026
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Speaking prior to the ceremony, Johnson said it will be decided by a committee at a later date in a process similar to the one used in selecting the name Legacy for the new middle school being built on Elgin’s east side.—
Mike Danahey,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2026
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More than half of respondents (52%) with primary school aged children expressed support for the introduction of robotaxis in their city.—
Laurie Winkless,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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From primary school curricula, to the construction of high schools, to the funding of research at elite universities, education and politics are awkwardly bound up in the United States—and therefore resistant to transformation or even evolution without considerable drama.—
Eric Holcomb,
Time,
16 Jan. 2026
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“Senior high school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/senior%20high%20school. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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