middle school

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Recent Examples of middle school In addition to Shulman, ARISE announced that Olivia Swisher, a middle school art teacher in Brooklyn, would run for UFT president, and Aixa Rodriguez, who teaches non-English-speakers the language at a Queens high school, for assistant secretary, as first reported by Politico. Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2025 Younger students may not be equipped to start their own passion projects, but students in middle school through sophomore years of high school can still use STEM for good by volunteering. Christopher Rim, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025 Loading your audio article Three men have been sentenced for their roles in the 2018 shooting death of a youth football coach in the parking lot of a middle school in south New Jersey, Cumberland County Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae announced Saturday. Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2025 Our officer did not play football past middle school. Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 10 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for middle school 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for middle school
Noun
  • Mueller, who transferred to South Elgin from Wheaton St. Francis at the semester break this winter, didn’t play football his first two years of high school, concentrating on basketball and track.
    Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Prior to The Bee, Smith covered high school sports at the Citrus Heights Sentinel.
    Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • School Board members must remember that their constituents are not only public school students and their parents, but Broward taxpayers as well.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2025
  • State officials reportedly pegged the total of the hurricane’s damage for western North Carolina public schools to be about $85 million.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    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
Noun
  • In 1715, Franklin’s money-conscious father removed his young son from the Boston grammar school that might have led to a college education and sent him to learn writing and arithmetic in preparation for a printing apprenticeship.
    James Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Chilean President Gabriel Boric, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Peruvian President Pedro Castillo all attended local grammar schools, high schools, and colleges.
    Christopher Sabatini, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2022
Noun
  • In 2023, the district voted him secondary school teacher of the year.
    Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 18 Jan. 2025
  • The first day of school for elementary and secondary schools in the 2025-2026 school year is set for Aug. 14, 2025 and the last day of school is June 4, 2026.
    Clara-Sophia Daly, Miami Herald, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The couple met in elementary school and began dating in high school.
    John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Nearly two years prior, three 9-year-old students and three adult staff members were killed in a shooting at The Covenant School, a private elementary school in Nashville.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Scholarships are available exclusively to Fox Valley high school seniors, college undergrads, trade school and graduate students for the 2025-26 academic year, according to a press release about the program.
    Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
  • As artificial intelligence rakes through the tech industry and beyond, some students also see some of the hands-on jobs taught in trade schools as less vulnerable to the machine-learning takeover.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • During the early 1960s, Cher was dating a senior high school boy who lived down the street from her family.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 25 Nov. 2024
  • 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

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“Middle school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/middle%20school. Accessed 5 Feb. 2025.

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