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an educational institution that includes the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades and often also the 9th grade
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Recent Examples of senior high school
The fourth annual Home Run Derby, a fundraising event that supports scholarships for South Bay senior high school athletes, is set for Nov. 22 at Eastlake High School.
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John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2025
Two senior high school students at the San Diego Unified School District encouraged their peers in a blog post to avoid participating in the challenge.
—Greta Cross, USA Today, 21 May 2025
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
The couple moved to Long Prairie in 1963, where Everett continued his 35-year teaching career in both junior and senior high school science.
—Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 20 Feb. 2024
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John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2025
Two senior high school students at the San Diego Unified School District encouraged their peers in a blog post to avoid participating in the challenge.
—Greta Cross, USA Today, 21 May 2025
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
The couple moved to Long Prairie in 1963, where Everett continued his 35-year teaching career in both junior and senior high school science.
—Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 20 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for senior high school
- high school
- junior high school
- public school
- secondary school
- elementary school
- grammar school
- middle school
- primary school
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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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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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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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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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The Sacramento Police Department on Sunday night released body camera footage of an officer shooting a suspect near an elementary school last month in the Northgate area.—
Brandon Downs,
CBS News,
5 Apr. 2026
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While the Lake Nona name was already used for a high school and middle school, the elementary school was not located in the development itself.—
Ryan Gillespie,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 Apr. 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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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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“Senior high school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/senior%20high%20school. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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