middle school

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Recent Examples of middle school In addition to Shulman, ARISE announced that Olivia Swisher, a middle school art teacher in Brooklyn, would run for UFT president, and Aixa Rodriguez, who teaches non-English-speakers the language at a Queens high school, for assistant secretary, as first reported by Politico. Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2025 Younger students may not be equipped to start their own passion projects, but students in middle school through sophomore years of high school can still use STEM for good by volunteering. Christopher Rim, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025 Loading your audio article Three men have been sentenced for their roles in the 2018 shooting death of a youth football coach in the parking lot of a middle school in south New Jersey, Cumberland County Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae announced Saturday. Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2025 Our officer did not play football past middle school. Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 10 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for middle school 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for middle school
Noun
  • Winning is something both girls are accustomed to in high school.
    Steve Galluzzo, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
  • For example, my teenage son is senior in high school.
    Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • School Board members must remember that their constituents are not only public school students and their parents, but Broward taxpayers as well.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2025
  • State officials reportedly pegged the total of the hurricane’s damage for western North Carolina public schools to be about $85 million.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • In 1715, Franklin’s money-conscious father removed his young son from the Boston grammar school that might have led to a college education and sent him to learn writing and arithmetic in preparation for a printing apprenticeship.
    James Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Chilean President Gabriel Boric, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Peruvian President Pedro Castillo all attended local grammar schools, high schools, and colleges.
    Christopher Sabatini, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2022
Noun
  • In 2023, the district voted him secondary school teacher of the year.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The first day of school for elementary and secondary schools in the 2025-2026 school year is set for Aug. 14, 2025 and the last day of school is June 4, 2026.
    Clara-Sophia Daly, Miami Herald, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The couple met in elementary school and began dating in high school.
    John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Other revelations in the diary include information about Henderson’s social media accounts being suspended for praising acts of mass violence and other school shootings, including a massacre at a Nashville elementary school in 2023.
    David Matthews, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • About 62% of high school (or equivalent) graduates go on to postsecondary study, which can refer to trade school or a four-year university, the Education Data Initiative, a collective of education data researchers, reports.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Our goal is to prepare high school students for major life decisions that will impact their future, such as college, trade school or a post-high school job.
    Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 20 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • During the early 1960s, Cher was dating a senior high school boy who lived down the street from her family.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Our education should include practical lifetime skills such as a general financial class in junior or senior high school, civics, and unadulterated American history.
    Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2024

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“Middle school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/middle%20school. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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