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Recent Examples of junior high school
The Castaic Union School District closed all schools, while the William S. Hart Union High School District shut down multiple campuses, including Castaic, Valencia, and Rio Norte junior high schools, impacting 21,000 students in the Santa Clarita Valley.
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Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
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Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
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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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Day two of the Texas high school boys basketball UIL state championships are here.—
Charles Baggarly and,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Mar. 2025
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Ryan Rodriguez got his first true glimpse of just how good Carson Beck could be when the two were both still in high school.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
8 Mar. 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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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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Many Mennonite families don’t send children to public schools.—
Carlos Nogueras Ramos,
Chicago Tribune,
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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Prairie Park Elementary, 2711 Kensington Road, is one of ten elementary schools in Lawrence Unified School District 497.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
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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Americans know that their children can get a free public education and student loans for college or trade schools to advance themselves economically.—
Joseph P. Tomain,
The Conversation,
27 Feb. 2025
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As tuition costs at traditional four-year colleges have skyrocketed, young people have increasingly opted for vocational programs, trade schools and blue-collar jobs.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA TODAY,
25 Sep. 2024
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“Junior high school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junior%20high%20school. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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