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Students as young as 12 at the nearby junior high school also have been issued tickets.
—Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, 25 Nov. 2024
But being in your early thirties and playing yourself as a junior high school student and then surrounding yourself with age-appropriate actors who are actually going through that hellish rite of passage brings a whole new layer of cringe and humor.
—Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
Kids at Evanston Academy, which would turn into the district's junior high school for the east corridor, would then go to Frederick Douglass instead.
—Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2024
Owens’ casting served as a reunion for Wayans, as the two actors went to junior high school together in real life.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 20 Oct. 2024
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First Known Use
1907, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of junior high school was
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“Junior high school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/junior%20high%20school. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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junior high school
noun
: a school usually including the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades
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