How to Use middle school in a Sentence

middle school

noun
  • The new middle school building opened in the fall of 2020.
    Brian Lisik, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2022
  • And most start in high school, not middle school, to prep their kids for the process.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The parents and Cuong Tran and Huy Tran have been friends since middle school, the law firm says.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Their 11-year-old twin boys will get a phone in middle school, too.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Back then, middle school sucked the little joy there was out of life.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2023
  • The teacher had worked at the middle school for nearly 30 years.
    Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The key is to start young—around middle school or even earlier.
    Monika Mueller, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The board at the time also opted to change a middle school's mascot.
    Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024
  • The band is made up of high school and middle school students from School District U-46.
    Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The new policy required the school to accept 1.5% of the eighth-grade class at each of the district’s middle schools.
    USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
  • His father still has a copy of the letter Terrence wrote in middle school to...
    Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Ethan was a student at the middle school and Samantha was a graduate of the high school.
    Jennifer Edwards Baker, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Gen Zers, in many cases, are filling their slots—though the youngest Gen Zers are still in middle school.
    Julia Dhar, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • At that time, the student was playing on a middle school girls’ soccer team.
    Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The high school and a neighboring middle school is closed Friday, the district said.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Gabrielle Johnson said middle school was the toughest stage.
    Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The sleepless nights ahead, the tantrums and book reports and standardized tests and the million ways that kids in middle school are mean.
    Allegra Goodman, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Faced with a constrained budget, the district shuttered the middle school.
    Becca Savransky, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2023
  • But there are kids here now who were in middle school when Greenwood made that semistate run.
    Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Feb. 2023
  • She was teased in middle school for her accent and for receiving a free lunch.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Anthony and Paul became fast friends in middle school – but that bond came to a sudden end with the death of Beach.
    Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Karon Blake, 13, was shot in the Brookland neighborhood, near his middle school.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2024
  • This spin-off imagines what the Rugrats babies would be like as tweens, dealing with the ~horrors~ of middle school.
    Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Raised in Newport Beach, Colin first met Hotchkiss in middle school.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 22 May 2024
  • Declining interest in the sport and the fact there are no wrestling teams at the local middle schools played a big role in the program’s demise.
    Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The boundary study will mainly focus on the middle schools, Mulford said.
    Al Gaspeny, Arkansas Online, 28 July 2023
  • The middle school program includes kids going to the high school to see the varsity practices.
    Aj Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Black is 5 feet, 2 inches tall and played point guard for her high school and middle school basketball teams.
    Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Back when Maddie Howton was in middle school, other kids made fun of her height and red hair.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 7 Dec. 2022
  • In middle school the bullying got so bad that cops talked to the other kids about the effects of such behavior.
    Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 3 Oct. 2024

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