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
Yet running in a pro race in Europe after that senior high school season in 2004, Rupp came up more than 36 seconds off of Chapa’s time.
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Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
25 Apr. 2026
The Denver Post will present the April Heinrichs Award to an extraordinary senior high school girls soccer player from Colorado who’s also a star in the classroom and the community.
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The Denver Post,
Denver Post,
1 Mar. 2026
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.
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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.
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Corinne Brion,
The Conversation,
4 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for senior high school
Scott M. Reid,
Oc Register,
25 Apr. 2026
The Denver Post will present the April Heinrichs Award to an extraordinary senior high school girls soccer player from Colorado who’s also a star in the classroom and the community.
—
The Denver Post,
Denver Post,
1 Mar. 2026
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
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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The approach of the 250th anniversary has brought up complicated feelings for Galvan, 18, and Olivia Suarez, both of whom just finished high school in Long Beach, California.
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Elle is in high school when her parents relocated to Seattle, and the first season follows her attempts to find a path in the Pacific Northwest, helped along by her mother’s guidance.
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Japanese scientists studied university and junior high school soccer players of varying skill levels to study dribbling dynamics, focusing on the scissors feint.
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Families can enter the junior high school through the bus turnaround on North Conejo Avenue near the gym.
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Both public school districts continue to outperform the state of Florida average testing marks for most academic subject and skill tests.
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Amanda Davidson and her family moved to Overland Park a few years ago due to the area’s strong public school system.
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The students, who were taking their secondary school leaving examinations when they were attacked and abducted, are between 15 and 18 years old.
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As William revealed earlier this year, George has already started boarding—good preparation for what is to come at secondary school.
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He was charged with possession of child pornography in 2018 and hosted his campaign kickoff in front of an elementary school.
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Despite her typically sweet and rule-following ways, Weeks got called to her elementary school principal’s office after getting in the face of a boy who picked on her best friend, according to Kristen Weeks.
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Can states ban transgender kids from playing sports in grammar school, when boys and girls routinely play on the same teams?
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He was born in New York and grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, starting his grammar school’s first newspaper before writing a humor column for the newspaper while a student at Morristown High School.
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Whereas John Wooden or Dean Smith may have figured out how to make it today, Bob Knight would be lucky to keep a job as a gym teacher at a middle school in Homeless, Ohio.
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An announcement over the intercom of the middle school Anderson and her sister, Cassie, attended changed that.
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Said Oulhadj, 62, a primary school principal in a mountain village, wanted to run with the independent Thagmats (Fraternity) party but was banned.
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Maureen Groppe Idaho’s law prohibits transgender women and girls from playing on female teams from primary school through college, including both intramural sports and competitive, elite teams.
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“Senior high school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/senior%20high%20school. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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