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 union and district agreed to the secondary school format as a way to keep students in small stable groups.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • At its best, then, the vibe is extremely secondary school.
    Gabrielle Korn, refinery29.com, 1 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • With a single earbud in, Kwaje crosses the road to one of Bidibidi’s five secondary schools.
    Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • The money can grow tax-deferred and be used tax-free at virtually any post-secondary school in the U.S., as well as some abroad.
    Liz Weston, oregonlive, 28 Dec. 2019
  • The new secondary school building is projected to open early next year.
    cleveland, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Some did not even do primary school, others did not do secondary school.
    Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2018
  • The first day of instruction for Catholic elementary schools in the Archdiocese of Louisville is Aug. 14, but the start dates for secondary schools will vary.
    Ben Tobin, The Courier-Journal, 25 July 2019
  • In my secondary school, [out of] 1,200 students, there were at most five students who were not white, Northern Irish, Protestant or Catholic.
    Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 17 May 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
  • The district has instructed any secondary school that has not shared Chromebooks or tablets with students to do so by the end of week, Trejo said.
    Corbett Smith, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2020
  • This year secondary schools are likelier to be oversubscribed than in past years, because of the abundance of 11-year-olds.
    The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The court adjourned what would have been a first hearing for Hui Tim-lik, because the secondary school student is still in a hospital in the wake of his arrest.
    John Leicester, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Schools end at 2 p.m. for elementary and 1 p.m. for secondary school.
    Alecia Taylor, Miami Herald, 10 June 2024
  • Pupils tested themselves for Covid-19 at a secondary school in Bonn, Germany, on Monday.
    Bertrand Benoit, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The share of children in British secondary schools who learn a foreign language is at its lowest level in almost 20 years.
    The Economist, 13 Sep. 2019
  • More protests, including a rally by secondary school students, are planned for the coming days.
    Hillary Leung / Hong Kong, Time, 28 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • This is a sad reflection on the failure of our secondary schools to provide a successful bridge from high school to college.
    Washington Post, 5 July 2024
  • The researchers could not find a single secondary school for girls open in areas of heavy Taliban influence.
    Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 21 June 2018
  • For example, in South Africa, primary school is taught in Swahili, but secondary school is taught in English.
    Sherrie Nachman, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Gottfried has two: one outside his secondary school and one on Steinfelder Gaße in the center of the city, the location of his last residence in Cologne.
    John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024

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