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Rural students who do end up enrolling are more likely to drop out than their urban and suburban classmates and less likely to make it to graduation than suburban students, National Student Clearinghouse figures show.
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Jon Marcus, NPR, 16 May 2026
At a nearby McDonald's, three high school classmates — Logan Royer, 16, Cody Magrone, 16, and Brody Murray, 17 — noticed Fernandez-Delgado was struggling and came outside to help.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
Friends and classmates, meanwhile, were being disappeared.
—Annie Hylton, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
Shortly after midnight on May 25, prosecutors said the same group of teens were driving around San Mateo pulling pranks on classmates from Hillsdale High School.
—Tim Fang, CBS News, 14 May 2026
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Jon Marcus, NPR, 16 May 2026
At a nearby McDonald's, three high school classmates — Logan Royer, 16, Cody Magrone, 16, and Brody Murray, 17 — noticed Fernandez-Delgado was struggling and came outside to help.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
Friends and classmates, meanwhile, were being disappeared.
—Annie Hylton, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
Shortly after midnight on May 25, prosecutors said the same group of teens were driving around San Mateo pulling pranks on classmates from Hillsdale High School.
—Tim Fang, CBS News, 14 May 2026
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“Classmate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/classmate. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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classmate
noun
class·mate
ˈklas-ˌmāt 
: a member of the same class in a school or college
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