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The Castaic Union School District closed all schools, while the William S. Hart Union High School District shut down multiple campuses, including Castaic, Valencia, and Rio Norte junior high schools, impacting 21,000 students in the Santa Clarita Valley.
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Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
Here's what's changing for next school year: West Corridor
Ethel M. Taylor Academy will become a junior high school serving students in seventh and eighth grades.
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Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 11 Dec. 2024
Students as young as 12 at the nearby junior high school also have been issued tickets.
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Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, 25 Nov. 2024
But being in your early thirties and playing yourself as a junior high school student and then surrounding yourself with age-appropriate actors who are actually going through that hellish rite of passage brings a whole new layer of cringe and humor.
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Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
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First Known Use
1907, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of junior high school was
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“Junior high school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/junior%20high%20school. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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junior high school
noun
: a school usually including the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades
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