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Recent Examples of elementary school
The foundation is also remodeling more than 25 public elementary school yards in the Oakland Unified School District and has completed 15 new playgrounds so far.
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Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
The most significant was an airstrike on a girls' elementary school in the southern city of Minab, which Iranian state media said killed 168 people.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026
The cuts involved closing a historic elementary school, changing the district’s middle school structure and eliminating more than 70 jobs, along with dozens of district programs and contracts.
—Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026
For his appearance on the digital series, Kahan — whose new album The Great Divide arrives April 24 — takes over a classroom at PS 15, a public elementary school in New York City’s Lower East Side neighborhood.
—Annie Harrigan, Billboard, 31 Mar. 2026
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Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
The most significant was an airstrike on a girls' elementary school in the southern city of Minab, which Iranian state media said killed 168 people.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026
The cuts involved closing a historic elementary school, changing the district’s middle school structure and eliminating more than 70 jobs, along with dozens of district programs and contracts.
—Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026
For his appearance on the digital series, Kahan — whose new album The Great Divide arrives April 24 — takes over a classroom at PS 15, a public elementary school in New York City’s Lower East Side neighborhood.
—Annie Harrigan, Billboard, 31 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elementary school
- secondary school
- primary school
- high school
- public school
- junior high school
- grammar school
- middle school
- senior high school
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Raducanu attended Newstead Wood School, a highly selective secondary school in Orpington, Greater London.—
Laura Payne,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
1 Apr. 2026
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But the stakes of state legislation that would create new hurdles for immigrant children to attend elementary and secondary school would arguably be much higher.—
William McCorkle,
The Conversation,
23 Mar. 2026
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Talankin was a beloved events coordinator and school videographer at his primary school in the remote Russian town of Karabash.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
15 Mar. 2026
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Wunmi also developed a curious daily ritual of coming home every day after primary school, drinking cartons of long-life milk, and watching Annie.—
Kemi Alemoru,
Glamour,
14 Mar. 2026
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This season, for Kitty, for Yuri, for all of our characters, is really about all of them being on the precipice of adulthood, and transitioning in this final year of being seniors in high school into being adults.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
2 Apr. 2026
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Spurs guard De’Aaron Fox took the floor for a game in Milwaukee with a headband on, in hopes of throwing his look back to his high school days at Cypress Lakes in Katy.—
Jeff McDonald,
San Antonio Express-News,
2 Apr. 2026
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This year, more than 2,600 OCPS students left public school to use those scholarships, also called vouchers, according to Step Up For Students, which administers most of Florida’s scholarships.—
Steven Walker,
The Orlando Sentinel,
31 Mar. 2026
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My father was a public school teacher.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2026
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Years later, when his son was in junior high school, his teacher asked him to help his son with a history project.—
Edie Kasten,
CBS News,
14 Mar. 2026
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The arrest comes a day after an 11-year-old girl was arrested for stabbing a 12-year-old boy inside her Bronx junior high school.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
3 Mar. 2026
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After the school board decided not to appeal, the students returned to the grammar school.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
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Meyers’ father, Michael, coached for 23 years at grammar schools and high schools on the South Side of Chicago.—
Steve Millar,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Feb. 2026
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Ksenia Matson was a special education teacher at the middle school.—
Jermont Terry,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
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The pair met in middle school; Hammond was in seventh grade, and Betts was in eighth.—
Kate Hogan,
PEOPLE,
1 Apr. 2026
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The Denver Post will present the April Heinrichs Award to an extraordinary senior high school girls soccer player from Colorado who’s also a star in the classroom and the community.—
The Denver Post,
Denver Post,
1 Mar. 2026
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Principals could designate supervised areas where more senior high school students can briefly use their phones for multifactor authentication.—
Corinne Brion,
The Conversation,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Elementary school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elementary%20school. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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