How to Use middle school in a Sentence

middle school

noun
  • And most start in high school, not middle school, to prep their kids for the process.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The parents and Cuong Tran and Huy Tran have been friends since middle school, the law firm says.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Their 11-year-old twin boys will get a phone in middle school, too.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Back then, middle school sucked the little joy there was out of life.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2023
  • The key is to start young—around middle school or even earlier.
    Monika Mueller, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The new policy required the school to accept 1.5% of the eighth-grade class at each of the district’s middle schools.
    USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Ethan was a student at the middle school and Samantha was a graduate of the high school.
    Jennifer Edwards Baker, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2023
  • At that time, the student was playing on a middle school girls’ soccer team.
    Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The high school and a neighboring middle school is closed Friday, the district said.
    Antonio Planas, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Gabrielle Johnson said middle school was the toughest stage.
    Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The sleepless nights ahead, the tantrums and book reports and standardized tests and the million ways that kids in middle school are mean.
    Allegra Goodman, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Faced with a constrained budget, the district shuttered the middle school.
    Becca Savransky, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2023
  • But there are kids here now who were in middle school when Greenwood made that semistate run.
    Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Feb. 2023
  • She was teased in middle school for her accent and for receiving a free lunch.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Karon Blake, 13, was shot in the Brookland neighborhood, near his middle school.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Declining interest in the sport and the fact there are no wrestling teams at the local middle schools played a big role in the program’s demise.
    Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The boundary study will mainly focus on the middle schools, Mulford said.
    Al Gaspeny, Arkansas Online, 28 July 2023
  • The middle school program includes kids going to the high school to see the varsity practices.
    Aj Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Black is 5 feet, 2 inches tall and played point guard for her high school and middle school basketball teams.
    Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The wooded area behind her middle school is among the search locations.
    Elizabeth Pritchett, Fox News, 29 Feb. 2024
  • In middle school, Otieno would invite classmates eating lunch alone to join him, Ouko said.
    Aditi Sangal, CNN, 21 Mar. 2023
  • For a year, Field taught improv and scene study to middle school students at an after-school program in Rockville.
    Katia Parks, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2023
  • The new middle school's name was approved by board members at a recent board meeting.
    Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 17 Feb. 2023
  • And around Japan, night schools fill a gap for both foreigners and Japanese who missed out on middle school.
    Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Barasch wasn’t surprised that the teens were missing some skills after their chaotic middle school years.
    By Ariel Gilreath Of The Hechinger Report and Jackie Valley Of The Christian Science Monitor, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The planner pictured here is the college version, but there are middle school and high school options.
    Medea Giordano, WIRED, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Click here for a breakdown for each middle school in October.
    Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Franks started playing in second grade and by fourth grade, was playing with the middle school travel team.
    Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Would have killed for her perfectly curly ponytail in middle school.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The country singer and Cassidy met in middle school but spent years in and out of each other's lives before getting married in 2005.
    Emily J. Shiffer, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2023

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