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Recent Examples of junior high school
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.
—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.
—Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
Kids at Evanston Academy, which would turn into the district's junior high school for the east corridor, would then go to Frederick Douglass instead.
—Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2024
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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.
—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.
—Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
Kids at Evanston Academy, which would turn into the district's junior high school for the east corridor, would then go to Frederick Douglass instead.
—Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for junior high school
- high school
- senior high school
- public school
- secondary school
- grammar school
- elementary school
- middle school
- trade school
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None of that hairy high school fake this, do what we're told.—
Jim Reineking,
USA TODAY,
25 Feb. 2025
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Frost was very much a man of letters, a classicist and, alongside his future wife, Elinor, a co-valedictorian of his high school, in Lawrence, Massachusetts.—
Maggie Doherty,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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Nothing was normal about this all-star matchup, which pitted 99 of the South Bay’s best senior high school football players against each other on North and South teams.—
Christian Babcock,
The Mercury News,
2 Feb. 2025
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About six companies specially recruit junior and senior high school students every fall, according to its website.—
Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Jan. 2025
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Many Mennonite families don’t send children to public schools.—
Carlos Nogueras Ramos,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Mar. 2025
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In interviews with The News, parents have repeatedly expressed a desire to remain in the city, but a struggle to make ends meet while waiting for public school.—
Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
4 Mar. 2025
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Instead, the hardline Islamist group has done an about-face and banned women from going to university, closed secondary schools and beauty salons, and stopped women from working at NGOs, including at the United Nations.—
Salma Abdelaziz,
CNN,
23 Jan. 2025
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Historic buildings, elementary and secondary schools, manufacturing buildings, agricultural buildings and federal buildings can apply to be exempted.—
Christine Condon,
Baltimore Sun,
15 Jan. 2025
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Part track meet, part grammar school fitness test, the combine is a vital cog in the NFL draft’s evaluation machine 🏃🏾♂️. March 10 — Free agent negotiating period begins.—
Jim Reineking,
USA TODAY,
25 Feb. 2025
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Dammers belonged to a generation that was pushed to pass the notorious eleven-plus exam and get into one of the United Kingdom’s supposedly superior grammar schools.—
Ian Penman,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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The monthly goal is to give away about a thousand books, usually to elementary schools, middle schools and different children’s organizations, or to have students come into the bookstore and clear the shelves themselves.—
Shanzeh Ahmad,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Mar. 2025
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The club’s goal is to honor students at Barnard, Kate Sessions and Pacific Beach elementary schools and Crown Point Junior Music Academy.—
Elizabeth Marie Himchak,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Feb. 2025
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The system's junior high ranked first statewide among middle schools in overall ATLAS growth with a rate of 88.11%.—
Lena Miano,
arkansasonline.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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By middle school, many kids’ interest in learning falls off a cliff.—
Jenny Anderson,
The Atlantic,
26 Feb. 2025
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The National College Rainbow Fund will provide $2,500 each to 200 students throughout California, to be used for public or private nonprofit undergraduate schools, community college or trade schools.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Feb. 2025
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Alternative pathways, such as apprenticeships, trade schools, or stackable credentials, can provide valuable skills and real-world experience without the time and cost of a traditional degree.—
Dr. Aviva Legatt,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Junior high school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junior%20high%20school. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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