senior high school

noun

Definition of senior high schoolnext
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for senior high school
  1. high school
  2. junior high school
  3. public school
  4. secondary school
  5. elementary school
  6. grammar school
  7. middle school
  8. primary school
Noun
  • His high school, college and NFL jerseys hang in the hallway of the only school in town (his 2019 graduating class of 23 people is considered big here).
    — Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • About 7% of high school athletes go on to compete in any sport in college, according to NCAA participation data, and less than 2% receive an academic scholarship.
    — Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of high school
Noun
  • From medicine to computer science After his kindergarten experience watching a brain surgery video, Alwakeel had little opportunity to pursue his medical dreams in elementary and junior high school.
    — Beth Reese Cravey, Florida Times-Union, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Becerra was quiet and serious when Franco first met him in junior high school, but slowly warmed up to other students.
    — Ben Paviour August 17, Sacbee.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of junior high school
Noun
  • New York City's public school students are scheduled return to the classroom next week.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026
  • New York — New York City is banning the use of generative artificial intelligence for public school students from 2K through 8th grade, part of a larger move to restrict classroom technology in the nation’s largest school district.
    — Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of public school
Noun
  • Seventy percent of Gen Z women who started playing sports continued through the end of high or secondary school, compared with 62% of Baby Boomers.
    — Brittany Talarico, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The ban has been in place long enough that an entire cohort of girls has passed through adolescence without stepping foot in a secondary school classroom.
    — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of secondary school
Noun
  • At an elementary school, Salomon picks up three trash bins full of cafeteria food refuse, including what appears to be leftover Sloppy Joe meat in a clear bag swarmed by flies.
    — Audrey McGlinchy, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Bush was visiting an elementary school in Sarasota, Florida, when Chief of Staff Andrew Card informed him that planes had struck the World Trade Center.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of elementary 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
Noun
  • His parents got divorced in middle school, and that forced him to find his independence.
    — Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • New York City's schools will ban elementary and middle school students from using generative AI tools during the upcoming school year, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Wednesday.
    — Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of middle school
Noun
  • In each session, tutors also assist students with their homework assigned by their primary school.
    — Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The impact on schools is especially striking, says Marie Gorette Mutuyimana, a primary school teacher of 28 years who crosses the river twice every weekday to get to and from work.
    — Fatma Tanis, NPR, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of primary school

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