trade school

noun

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as in public school

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Recent Examples of trade school Many skilled trade schools recognize that service members are well-suited for careers in the trades and actively work to support their transition by offering enrollment assistance and educational funding. — Rose Van Alstine, Fortune, 26 May 2026 With only about a month left before graduation, eligible high school seniors across Los Angeles County still have time to claim scholarship funding worth up to $1,500 to pay for college, trade school or other education expenses. — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026 People of color and low-income communities deserve to receive higher education, whether at an academic institution or a trade school. — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 5 May 2026 An online streamer raising money to build a trade school program for underserved kids was hit by a car during his cross-country fundraising walk — and his livestream captured it all. — Kaitlyn McCormick, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for trade school
Recent Examples of Synonyms for trade school
  1. public school
  2. high school
  3. grammar school
  4. junior high school
  5. secondary school
  6. middle school
  7. elementary school
  8. common school
Noun
  • Ellery Brown also worked for many years in Miami-Dade’s public school system, leading New World School of the Arts, a public magnet high school and college, from 1993 to 2007.
    — Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026
  • The bill would send quarterly installments of $2,500 next year to public school paraprofessionals, whose starting salary is about $32,600.
    — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 16 July 2026
Definition of public school
Noun
  • The grades that students receive in high school and college can decide their futures.
    — Laura Link, Washington Post, 21 July 2026
  • In alphabetical order, here are the top running backs ahead of the Georgia high school football season.
    — Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 21 July 2026
Definition of high 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
  • 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
  • The young Brits' last year in secondary school finds Charlie starting a pride club, Nick worrying about an uncertain future, and both considering the impact of long-distance love.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 17 July 2026
  • As George started his final year at Lambrook before beginning secondary school in 2026, the princess offered an update on her eldest son.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 14 July 2026
Definition of secondary school
Noun
  • The two remaining students already were of junior high school age and were in the midst of attending middle school in neighboring districts as part of an agreement that McAuley leaders reached with District 33 in the late 1980s.
    — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2026
  • The model also assumed that starting middle school marked an emotional milestone and that helping her child feel confident drove her decisions.
    — Christine Michel Carter, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of middle school
Noun
  • Kevin Birth, a professor of anthropology at Queens College whose research focuses on cultural concepts of time, was in elementary school in Syracuse, New York, at the time and remembers it vividly.
    — Deepti Hajela, Fortune, 16 July 2026
  • The halftime show will also include performances by singer Burna Boy, conductor Gustavo Dudamel, and the PS22 Chorus, which is the acclaimed choir of 4th and 5th graders from a public elementary school in Staten Island, New York.
    — Angeline Jane Bernabe, ABC News, 14 July 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
Definition of common school

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