grammar school

noun

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as in high school

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Recent Examples of grammar school After the school board decided not to appeal, the students returned to the grammar school. — Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026 Meyers’ father, Michael, coached for 23 years at grammar schools and high schools on the South Side of Chicago. — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2026 After Cathedral School, a grammar school across Gough Street, closed, Sacred Heart Cathedral arranged a long-term lease and turned that lot into a too-small grass practice field for football, soccer and lacrosse, called Coach Bill Henneberry Practice Field. — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2026 For instance, throughout the Middle Ages, grammar schools began with letter sounds and memorization of the Psalms for practice. — Daniel Buck, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for grammar school
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grammar school
  1. high school
  2. trade school
  3. public school
  4. junior high school
  5. elementary school
  6. middle school
  7. secondary school
  8. senior high school
Noun
  • Frodin has a year left in high school and doesn’t know her plans after that.
    — Brian Mahoney, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Here is the schedule and scoreboard for Week 3 games for Orlando area high school football teams.
    — Steve Gorches, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of high school
Noun
  • Consider these private options What’s the best way to pay for trade school?
    — Deane Biermeier, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
  • 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, Charlotte Observer, 27 July 2026
Definition of trade school
Noun
  • Traditional public school enrollment in the district is down from 352,000 in 2006-07 to about 217,000 to start this year.
    — Austin Horn August 29, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Both are overwhelmingly nonwhite, neither a traditional neighborhood public school.
    — Theo Peck-Suzuki, Hartford Courant, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of public school
Noun
  • 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
  • So the Sephora Performance Center might as well be a junior high school gym.
    — Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of junior high school
Noun
  • By people at churches, students and teachers at an elementary school, office workers, and anyone walking near the field.
    — Seth Emerson, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Eyde is an elementary school substitute teacher in the Independence School District, according to a news release from Candice Jamoles, a public affairs specialist for the Department of Justice.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of elementary school
Noun
  • The additional restrictions at these school districts come a few months after the school district and police department in Rocklin banned Class 2 and Class 3 e-bikes on elementary and middle school campuses.
    — Madison Smalstig, Sacbee.com, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Jena Johnson’s daughter can expect one heckuva wedding after lottery officials said the Chatham County middle school teacher won a $10 million jackpot on a North Carolina scratch-off ticket.
    — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of middle school
Noun
  • The ban has been in place long enough that an entire cohort of girls has passed through adolescence without stepping foot in a secondary school classroom.
    — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
  • In 2014, Boko Haram took almost three hundred girls from a secondary school in Chibok; the whereabouts of some ninety are still unknown.
    — Alexis Okeowo, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of secondary school
Noun
  • This would be required for elementary, junior and senior high schools.
    — Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 May 2026
  • 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.
    — Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 25 Apr. 2026
Definition of senior high school

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