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Recent Examples of junior high school
At junior high schools, phones must be away during classes and passing periods, but students may use them during lunch for communication purposes only.
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Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
11 May 2026
Examples include Mamaw Mentorship, a group in Central Appalachia to bring older women and girls in junior high school together to learn from each other.
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Michael Clinton,
Time,
5 May 2026
Two days after the hearing a class of junior high school students unrolled a fifty-foot-long petition down the middle aisle of the city council chamber in nearby Baytown.
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Scott W. Stern,
The New York Review of Books,
13 Apr. 2026
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.
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Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
3 Mar. 2026
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Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
11 May 2026
Examples include Mamaw Mentorship, a group in Central Appalachia to bring older women and girls in junior high school together to learn from each other.
—
Michael Clinton,
Time,
5 May 2026
Two days after the hearing a class of junior high school students unrolled a fifty-foot-long petition down the middle aisle of the city council chamber in nearby Baytown.
—
Scott W. Stern,
The New York Review of Books,
13 Apr. 2026
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
See All Example Sentences for junior high school
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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The approach of the 250th anniversary has brought up complicated feelings for Galvan, 18, and Olivia Suarez, both of whom just finished high school in Long Beach, California.
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Elle is in high school when her parents relocated to Seattle, and the first season follows her attempts to find a path in the Pacific Northwest, helped along by her mother’s guidance.
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This would be required for elementary, junior and senior high schools.
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Yet running in a pro race in Europe after that senior high school season in 2004, Rupp came up more than 36 seconds off of Chapa’s time.
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Both public school districts continue to outperform the state of Florida average testing marks for most academic subject and skill tests.
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Amanda Davidson and her family moved to Overland Park a few years ago due to the area’s strong public school system.
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According to the law, officers generally cannot arrest someone under SB 4 at a public or private primary or secondary school.
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At 16, Elizabeth had just written her Basic Education Certificate Examination, an important academic milestone for junior secondary school students in Ghana seeking to advance to higher education.
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Can states ban transgender kids from playing sports in grammar school, when boys and girls routinely play on the same teams?
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He was born in New York and grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, starting his grammar school’s first newspaper before writing a humor column for the newspaper while a student at Morristown High School.
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He was charged with possession of child pornography in 2018 and hosted his campaign kickoff in front of an elementary school.
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Despite her typically sweet and rule-following ways, Weeks got called to her elementary school principal’s office after getting in the face of a boy who picked on her best friend, according to Kristen Weeks.
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Whereas John Wooden or Dean Smith may have figured out how to make it today, Bob Knight would be lucky to keep a job as a gym teacher at a middle school in Homeless, Ohio.
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An announcement over the intercom of the middle school Anderson and her sister, Cassie, attended changed that.
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Fortunately, some lenders offer student loans specifically designed for trade school, though they may be labeled as career training loans or something similar.
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More than 90% of the children in the student advocate program were accepted into college, trade school or the military after graduating high school, according to program records.
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“Junior high school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junior%20high%20school. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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