How to Use middle school in a Sentence

middle school

noun
  • The new middle school building opened in the fall of 2020.
    Brian Lisik, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • Once in middle school, Christy took part in a couple of a pageants.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 19 Aug. 2022
  • And Halvorsen went to her first learn-to-row camp in middle school.
    Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2022
  • It’s a mental health book about my middle school on the West Side.
    Richard Webner, San Antonio Express-News, 8 June 2022
  • The teacher had worked at the middle school for nearly 30 years.
    Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2023
  • At the time, one niece was in college, the other in high school and his nephew was in middle school.
    Lisa Zobel, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The key is to start young—around middle school or even earlier.
    Monika Mueller, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The board at the time also opted to change a middle school's mascot.
    Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024
  • The band is made up of high school and middle school students from School District U-46.
    Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
  • In its first year as a full magnet, the school drew in students from 22 of the district's middle schools.
    Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 6 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • His father still has a copy of the letter Terrence wrote in middle school to...
    Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 1 Aug. 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
  • Gen Zers, in many cases, are filling their slots—though the youngest Gen Zers are still in middle school.
    Julia Dhar, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Anyone that has known me in middle school, high school, college has seen a version of this form for me.
    Jeff Nelson, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2022
  • She was teased in middle school for her accent and for receiving a free lunch.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2023
  • In middle school, Bryan James Robles joined the track team mostly to keep up with his three closest friends.
    Emily Laber-Warren, Washington Post, 5 July 2022
  • Anthony and Paul became fast friends in middle school – but that bond came to a sudden end with the death of Beach.
    Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Karon Blake, 13, was shot in the Brookland neighborhood, near his middle school.
    Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2024
  • In fact, middle school is an ideal time to start laying the foundation for a student’s academic and personal growth.
    Dr. Aviva Legatt, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024

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