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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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The after-school program paid 15 high school juniors and seniors from across the county to attend get togethers at OCMA biweekly to learn about curatorial practice and all facets of arts administration.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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Clayton’s competitiveness and toughness developed as a high school football star, along with his clutch play on college basketball’s biggest stage continued to elevate his NBA stock.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
24 June 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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An overwhelming majority of public school parents (71%) support such a requirement.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
20 June 2025
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Only 7% of public school students are in charter schools.—
Abby McCloskey,
Twin Cities,
18 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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After Victoria completed primary school in 2018, her family had no means to send her for further education.—
Ogar Monday,
Christian Science Monitor,
17 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 4 Jul. 2025.
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