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trade school

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as in public school

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Recent Examples of trade school When participants come into the program, some want to finish a trade school, like HVAC or beauty school, while others may want to improve their grades. — Charlotte Observer, 27 July 2026 Certified workers in the trades, of which there is a significant shortage, can make $100K/year a few years out of trade school, for example. — Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 July 2026 Citing capacity concerns, Sabold has advice for anyone considering a trade school like his. — Bill Chappell, NPR, 9 July 2026 Fortunately, some lenders offer student loans specifically designed for trade school, though they may be labeled as career training loans or something similar. — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 26 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for trade school

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Noun

Roughly 12 hours after Georgia Tech announced one of its students was missing, the Midtown Atlanta public school said he’s been found.

— Jason Armesto, AJC.com, 17 Sep. 2026
End-of-year ATLAS results for Arkansas public school students showed a rise in student proficiency in math and English across grade levels from spring 2025 to spring 2026, according to the Education Department.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of public school

Noun

In academic performance, boys lag well behind girls in elementary school, high school, and college, where female undergraduates now outnumber their male peers roughly 2 to 1.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 21 Sep. 2026
Recommendations From the Star-Telegram, a story on a top high school baseball pitcher being ruled ineligible in Texas for transferring for athletic reasons.

— Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of high 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

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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

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The killing took place last October at the secondary school in Selangor, near Kuala Lumpur, defense attorney Kitson Foong said, per the Independent.

— Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026
Murphy noted that George, however, is the first future monarch to attend a secondary school like Eton in the age of smartphones and social media, requiring even more privacy precautions than in the past.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of secondary school

Noun

Fourteen other elementary schools, one high school, one middle school and one K-8 school were slightly fuller but under the 65% bar.

— Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Sep. 2026
Flynn sent the texts just months before his wife Ashley, a beloved middle school volleyball coach, was fatally shot in the head inside their family’s suburban home in February, Watkins said.

— Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of middle school

Noun

The museum tends to attract a broad swath of ages, from middle school on up to senior citizens—though school vacation periods do bring in a younger, elementary school–aged crowd, too.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2026
Three children and a woman were taken to the hospital Thursday morning after being hit by a vehicle near a Modesto elementary school.

— Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of elementary school

Noun

Hand in hand with that was the rise of literacy and the universal common school movement.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
Being outside of the scope of the requirement of the statutory definition of the common school system, charter schools fail to meet the definition required of a common school.

— Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 20 Feb. 2026

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