middle school

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Recent Examples of middle school The first error in the poll was including elementary and middle school parents that already start later. Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2026 Elementary and middle school teachers can hold multi-subject credentials, but high school teachers must be credentialed in specific subjects. Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 13 Mar. 2026 Garcia has to remind her that this isn’t middle school. Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026 The group includes a middle school teacher, college student, mechanical engineer and UPS worker. Sarah Bahari, Dallas Morning News, 11 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for middle school
Recent Examples of Synonyms for middle school
Noun
  • Faces off the field gives a revealing look into the thoughts and lives of high school student-athletes from the Austin area.
    Rick Cantu, Austin American Statesman, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Just before Christian started high school, Dietrich lost his job.
    Holden Seidlitz, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Lawmakers who advocated for the program said it was designed to give public school and homeschooled students an opportunity to switch to private education.
    S.E. Jenkins, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The bill also would have set the budget for vouchers in a line item separated from public school funding.
    Jeffrey S. Solochek, Sun Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • The announcement Tuesday was accompanied by bagpipe music from the Chicago Stockyard Kitty Band, and a procession of St. Christina grammar school students.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • An explosive-laden drone blamed on Sudanese paramilitaries struck a secondary school and a health care center in southern Sudan on Wednesday, killing at least 17 people, mostly schoolgirls, a hospital official and a medical group said.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The species name goes to David Rhys Jones, a secondary school physics teacher in Wales who taught the lead author.
    Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The vaccination rates vary sharply, according to public records for the 2024-25 school year, including 100% fully vaccinated at the Tootin’ Hills elementary school in West Simsbury and 98% at the Noah Wallace and East Farms elementary schools in Farmington.
    Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Hegseth was asked for an update about the investigation into the deadly strike on the elementary school in Iran that occurred soon after the operation began.
    NBC News, NBC news, 13 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Once a student grew up, the account holding that starting contribution and any additional funds their family contributed could have been used to help pay for education after high school, including college or trade school.
    R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The young teen was thinking about going to a trade school to learn about becoming a mechanic.
    Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 7 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • The former five-star prospect missed his entire senior high school season and freshman college season due to a torn ACL, reinjuring the same knee that had already been surgically repaired.
    Tony Catalina, Austin American Statesman, 4 Feb. 2026

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“Middle school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/middle%20school. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.

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