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
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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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Ojas Sanghi started his climate activism in high school joining the Arizona Youth Climate Coalition, and is now one of its leaders.—
Joan Meiners,
AZCentral.com,
6 July 2025
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Graham graduated from high school with a 5.0 GPA and went on to study English at UCLA.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
5 July 2025
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The controversy in Loudoun County came the day after parents and residents clashed at a school board meeting in the Chicago area on Monday after a trans junior high school student won multiple events at a local track meet.—
Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
22 May 2025
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Students at Evanston Academy, which would turn into the district's junior high school for the east corridor, would go to Frederick Douglass instead.—
Madeline Mitchell,
The Enquirer,
9 Dec. 2024
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Lockhart: Connecticut’s 2025 legislative session brought major wins for public schools: historic investments in special education via a $30 million Special Education Expansion and Development grant and $40 million Excess Cost Grant annually.—
Question & Answer,
Hartford Courant,
30 June 2025
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Supporters said the proposal would expand education options for families across the country, offering alternatives to students in areas with lower-performing public schools.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 June 2025
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In some cases, the similarities between the Ivy League and prestigious secondary schools are not coincidental, but the result of deep historical ties.—
Christopher Rim,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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The most recent ruled that Maine’s tuition assistance to parents in districts lacking public secondary schools can be used at religious institutions.—
Charles J. Russo,
The Conversation,
23 May 2025
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The screening is currently targeted at students in the first and fourth grades of elementary school, and the first levels of middle and high school.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 June 2025
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Hobart Superintendent Peggy Buffington said cursive is still taught in its elementary schools and it’s also taught in neighboring River Forest schools, said Superintendent Kevin Trezak. Lake Station Community Schools, doesn’t teach it, said Superintendent Tom Cripliver.—
Carole Carlson,
Chicago Tribune,
29 June 2025
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In 1966, the school was moved to Breightmet, maintaining its status as a grammar school.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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The settlement boasted both a high school and a grammar school – yet the lecture hall of the complex was only unearthed this past March.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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Ryan Gosling is a middle school teacher who is tasked with a mission somehow more impossible than getting his students to care, well, about anything, in the first trailer for Project Hail Mary.—
Althea Legaspi,
Rolling Stone,
30 June 2025
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That’s right: Gosling is leading the feature as a middle school biology teacher who travels to space to save the universe.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
30 June 2025
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According to the World Economic Forum, 65% of today’s primary school kids will work in jobs that don’t yet exist.—
Margie Warrell,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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The number of children entering primary school in 2023 reached the highest level in over two decades, according to Wind Information, before dropping in 2024, the year her son enrolled.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
21 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 9 Jul. 2025.
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