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Recent Examples of junior high school
The Castaic Union School District closed all schools, while the William S. Hart Union High School District shut down multiple campuses, including Castaic, Valencia, and Rio Norte junior high schools, impacting 21,000 students in the Santa Clarita Valley.
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Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
Here's what's changing for next school year: West Corridor
Ethel M. Taylor Academy will become a junior high school serving students in seventh and eighth grades.
—Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 11 Dec. 2024
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
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Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
Here's what's changing for next school year: West Corridor
Ethel M. Taylor Academy will become a junior high school serving students in seventh and eighth grades.
—Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 11 Dec. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for junior high school
- high school
- senior high school
- public school
- secondary school
- grammar school
- elementary school
- middle school
- trade school
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There are over 322,000 adults ages 18 and over without a high school diploma and more than 120,000 who do not speak English well who live in communities all across our state.—
Larry Covino,
Hartford Courant,
20 Mar. 2025
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As reported by sister site Deadline, Staite will recur during Season 4 as Jules Gardner, an FBI agent who went to high school with Asta, Liv , D’Arcy and Ben.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
20 Mar. 2025
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Nothing was normal about this all-star matchup, which pitted 99 of the South Bay’s best senior high school football players against each other on North and South teams.—
Christian Babcock,
The Mercury News,
2 Feb. 2025
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About six companies specially recruit junior and senior high school students every fall, according to its website.—
Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Jan. 2025
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Across the United States, different public schools have banned different books, with many of these bans taking aim at literature that affirms Black identity and culture.—
Janice Gassam Asare,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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In an unprecedented move, our public schools handed out hundreds of thousands of devices to help more than 1 million students continue to safely learn online with their teachers and classmates.—
Dr. Mitchell Katz,
New York Daily News,
14 Mar. 2025
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So was the girl leaving a village to attend secondary school, and the family accessing clean water for the first time.—
Michael J. Nyenhuis,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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The Jam formed in 1972 while all three band members were in secondary school, and their first album titled In the City released in 1977.—
Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
18 Feb. 2025
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Part track meet, part grammar school fitness test, the combine is a vital cog in the NFL draft’s evaluation machine 🏃🏾♂️. March 10 — Free agent negotiating period begins.—
Jim Reineking,
USA TODAY,
25 Feb. 2025
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Dammers belonged to a generation that was pushed to pass the notorious eleven-plus exam and get into one of the United Kingdom’s supposedly superior grammar schools.—
Ian Penman,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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For years, teachers and parents at a Liberty elementary school have worried that something in and around their campus may be making people sick, leading to a high number of cancer diagnoses.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
14 Mar. 2025
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The medical and psychiatric records in question supported the argument by relatives of Sandy Hook victims that they had been traumatized by Jones’ assertions that the elementary school massacre was a hoax and by years of harassment by members of his audience.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
13 Mar. 2025
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But my daughters came home from middle school without any mention of it.—
Aya Shechter,
The Mercury News,
13 Mar. 2025
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Many of these players are lifers, kids who started at Kent Denver in middle school, with a few, like Fay, who had Schayes as their sixth-grade English teacher.—
Troy Renck,
The Denver Post,
13 Mar. 2025
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Rotary holds scholarship raffle The Carlsbad Hi-Noon Rotary will hold a scholarship raffle to raise money for scholarships for Carlsbad students who are interested in furthering their education at college or trade schools.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Mar. 2025
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The missive, blasted to the account’s 4.2 million followers, was accompanied by screenshots of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, the government form that determines eligibility for financial assistance in paying for college or trade school.—
Zach Montague,
New York Times,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Junior high school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junior%20high%20school. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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