junior high school

noun

: a school usually including grades seven to nine

called also junior high

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Isabel’s dedication to her craft is evident in her commitment to vocal training in both classical voice and musical theatre, having worked with her current voice teacher since junior high school. Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2025 France saw a similar disconnect in 2020, when French junior high school teacher Samuel Paty was murdered by an Islamist extremist, after showing images of the prophet in class. Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Jan. 2025 And in a third incident, Sobel said, a junior high school student in Weston found two swastikas in his football locker. Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2025 But then in junior high school my world was rocked by one man: Bobby Caldwell. John Blake, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for junior high school

Word History

First Known Use

1907, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of junior high school was in 1907

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“Junior high school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/junior%20high%20school. Accessed 13 May. 2025.

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junior high school

noun
: a school usually including the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades

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