junior high school

noun

Definition of junior high schoolnext
as in high school

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Recent Examples of junior high school 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 The beginning of Operation Homecoming, the return of POWs, was scheduled for the same night as the junior high school’s Valentine’s Day dance, Saturday, February 10, 1973, just a few weeks after the official signing of the Paris Peace Accords, ending America’s military involvement in Vietnam. — Literary Hub, 14 May 2026 Brown, a junior high school teacher at the time, worked at the local level across San Diego County, leading efforts to desegregate housing and jobs in communities such as El Cajon and La Mesa. — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2026 Examples include Mamaw Mentorship, a group in Central Appalachia to bring older women and girls in junior high school together to learn from each other. — Michael Clinton, Time, 5 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for junior high school
Recent Examples of Synonyms for junior high school
  1. high school
  2. senior high school
  3. public school
  4. secondary school
  5. grammar school
  6. elementary school
  7. middle school
  8. trade 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
  • 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
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
  • 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
  • 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
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
  • 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

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