How to Use secondary school in a Sentence

secondary school

noun
  • About 100 of them are from the primary school and the rest from the secondary school.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • On June 22, the town had a groundbreaking for a new secondary school.
    Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The course was designed to be taken over a term for children in the first or second year of secondary school.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 12 July 2022
  • In South Sudan, there will be no secondary school this fall for some refugee children.
    New York Times, 22 Aug. 2022
  • When the four sold their startup, Auctomatic, for $5 million the next year, John was still in secondary school.
    Alex Konrad, Forbes, 26 May 2022
  • Across from their home, a primary and secondary school sits battered on the valley’s edge.
    Yousra Elbagir, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Of the nine arrested, six are secondary school students.
    Fox News, 6 July 2021
  • In secondary school, a music teacher helped unleash her voice.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Meals served at elementary and secondary schools are up almost 300% from a year ago.
    Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 10 May 2023
  • But back in 1894, that building was the entirety of St. Louis College, a solitary secondary school for boys with just a dirt trail leading to its doorstep.
    René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 23 June 2021
  • Pupils tested themselves for Covid-19 at a secondary school in Bonn, Germany, on Monday.
    Bertrand Benoit, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Abobigu dreamed of studying fashion, but her parents had no money to send her to secondary school.
    Laura Kiniry, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Feb. 2022
  • For example, in South Africa, primary school is taught in Swahili, but secondary school is taught in English.
    Sherrie Nachman, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • This month, though, the government said secondary school students should wear face coverings in class.
    Frances D'emilio, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Since taking power, the Taliban has barred many girls from secondary school and shut women out of most professions.
    Claire Parker, Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The Taliban has called on boys to resume secondary school education, with no mention of girls.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN, 20 Sep. 2021
  • In recent days, primary and secondary school classes have been forced to move online.
    Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 8 May 2022
  • Six of the people arrested are secondary school students.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 6 July 2021
  • Teenage boys returned to secondary school in September.
    Margherita Stancati, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Murray hands over the first section to Cass, a bookish, age-appropriately surly teen-ager in her last year of secondary school.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2023
  • In all, less than half of Maine’s 260 school systems operated a public secondary school.
    Michael Bobelian, Forbes, 22 June 2022
  • The festival features vendors and booths, plus performers from the secondary school grades.
    Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022
  • This follows the government barring girls from attending secondary school in March of this year.
    Sahar Akbarzai, CNN, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The problem is particularly acute for Afghan girls, who have stayed home and watched their brothers return to secondary school since the Taliban takeover.
    Anna Coren, Jessie Yeung and Abdul Basir Bina, CNN, 1 Nov. 2021
  • But are the two new faces we’re introduced to capable of standing up to the previous talent that’s graced the halls of this fictional elite secondary school?
    Sean Abrams, Men's Health, 13 Apr. 2022
  • For decades before the Taliban first came to power in 1996, villagers said, no woman here had gone to secondary school or a university.
    Sudarsan Raghavan, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Women in Afghanistan can no longer work in most sectors and require a male guardian for long-distance travel, while girls have been barred from returning to secondary school.
    Sahar Akbarzai, CNN, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Around 15% of students at U.S. public elementary and secondary schools but just 6% of teachers are Black.
    Nick Morrison, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The July study compared the average salary of primary and secondary school teachers to the average salary for all jobs within each state and the district.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2021
  • It was conceived to sell gold and lapis designs created and sourced in Afghanistan and built on a program to teach a trade (and business and marketing skills) to young women who drop out of secondary school.
    New York Times, 25 Aug. 2021

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