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
  • The phone number was associated with a second suspect, who attended the same high school as Bordley in 2023, according to the court document.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 7 July 2026
  • While discussing the vows with her cohosts, George Stephanopoulos and Michael Strahan, Roberts added that Swift and Kelce's neighbors and high school friends were also among the attendees.
    — Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 6 July 2026
Definition of high school
Noun
  • 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
  • Families can enter the junior high school through the bus turnaround on North Conejo Avenue near the gym.
    — Brandon Downs, CBS News, 28 May 2026
Definition of junior high school
Noun
  • This study addresses the research gap by asking public school principals to share information about their in-service learning opportunities, including the frequency of those opportunities, their subject matter, and their usefulness.
    — Mac Murray, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2026
  • In a 2025 national survey of sixth- through 12th-grade public school teachers, 43% reported used these kinds of apps regularly, while another 27% had tested or experimented with them.
    — Brett DeJager, The Conversation, 10 July 2026
Definition of public school
Noun
  • The students, who were taking their secondary school leaving examinations when they were attacked and abducted, are between 15 and 18 years old.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 June 2026
  • As William revealed earlier this year, George has already started boarding—good preparation for what is to come at secondary school.
    — Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 28 June 2026
Definition of secondary school
Noun
  • Annemarie Cortez, the principal at an elementary school in Corona, California, told me that many administrators are instructing teachers not to assign full books; they’re supposed to be running discrete reading drills with short excerpts.
    — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
  • Afrobeats star Burna Boy, Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the PS22 Chorus — a choir of elementary school students based in Staten Island, New York — will also perform, the last joined by Coldplay.
    — Staff And Wire Reports, Boston Herald, 8 July 2026
Definition of elementary school
Noun
  • 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
  • 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.
    — Mark Kennedy, Fortune, 15 June 2026
Definition of grammar school
Noun
  • During middle school, students begin to focus on establishing their identity, peer belonging and rapidly developing impulse-control systems.
    — Elizabeth Dowdell, The Conversation, 6 July 2026
  • For the first time, middle school students will participate in summer programs focused on artificial intelligence, STEM subjects, mathematics, science, and English.
    — Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of middle school
Noun
  • 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
  • Improving the economy was a talking point, for example, when Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf held a recent video call with the family of a child killed by an American airstrike on a primary school that killed 156 people, mostly pupils.
    — Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2026
Definition of primary school

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