middle school

noun

: a school usually including grades five to eight or six to eight
middle schooler noun

Examples of middle school in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In 2014, the state’s then-governor, Republican John Kasich, signed an education reform bill making Ohio one of the only states that required CTE courses for middle school students. Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Oct. 2024 How Her Story Inspired New Doc Our daughter was in middle school by then, where kids threw around anti-LGBTQ+ hate speech and wore Make America Great Again t-shirts. Abi Maxwell, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024 By the numbers: DMPS' 38 elementary and 12 middle schools are projected to be around 65% of capacity in the 2027-28 school year; high schools are expected to be at about 86%. Jason Clayworth, Axios, 18 Oct. 2024 Sirish Subash, an ninth grader from Snellville, Georgia, was the first-place winner for the 3M and Discovery Education competition, the nation’s premier middle school science competition, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for middle school 

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Word History

First Known Use

1870, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of middle school was in 1870

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“Middle school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/middle%20school. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

Kids Definition

middle school

noun
: a school usually including grades 5 to 8 or 6 to 8

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