high school

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Recent Examples of high school Students around the country are getting mock elections, nine-week campaign courses and field trips to the polls, where many high school seniors will vote for their first time on Tuesday. Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024 Read what the people who nominated these high school students say about them below, and then vote in our poll to determine who should take the title of Wisconsin Student of the Week. Rebecca Loroff, Journal Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2024 Matthew, a former NCAA hockey star with Boston College who became an assistant head coach for their high school hockey team in recent years, was 29. Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 2 Nov. 2024 Dealing with typical high school woes, Sam has a major crush on popular senior Jake Ryan (Michael Schoeffling), while awkward freshman Ted (Anthony Michael Hall) harbors a not-so-secret crush on her. Travis Bean, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for high school 
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Noun
  • Correa is a longtime Orange County resident, growing up in Anaheim public schools.
    Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 5 Nov. 2024
  • But for most of his career, Walz worked as a public school teacher and football coach, the type of middle-income job that doesn't lend itself to building a large nest egg.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Our education should include practical lifetime skills such as a general financial class in junior or senior high school, civics, and unadulterated American history.
    Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2024
  • At Wayne Local Schools, Shelby Herlihy is the new assistant principal at the junior/senior high school and Kevin Wright is the new director of student services and special education.
    Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • All twelve of Gaza’s universities, and some eighty-five per cent of its primary and secondary schools, have been irrevocably damaged.
    Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The Bureau of Indian Education funds 183 elementary and secondary schools and residential facilities across the nation.
    Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 25 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Cosby began her career as a teacher in an IPS elementary school and is program chair and professor of education at the Ivy Tech Community College campus in Indianapolis.
    Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Kids in elementary school needs a focus on reassurance, McWilliams Barndt said.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Prince George's County schools in Maryland are installing vape detectors in the bathrooms of all its high schools and some middle schools, a representative tells Axios.
    Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
  • That vision includes several middle schools and a more efficient transportation system.
    Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • With one sentence, vouchers would become constitutional in Kentucky: The General Assembly may provide financial support for the education of students outside the system of common schools.
    Peter Greene, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Of that, $45 million would go to the state’s common school fund and another $45 million would be earmarked for prizes.
    Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Since then, it has been relocated to a nearby primary school.
    UNICEF USA, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Kingston Golden Pils, a fresh take on the European Pils named after Holland’s hometown; Edge Hill Hazy IPA, a New-England style hoppy named after Holland’s primary school; and Noon Wheat, a nod to Tom’s beloved schnauzer of the same name.
    Anna Tingley, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024

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