as in secondary school
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Recent Examples of primary school
What’s more, the breadth of different projects financed by NMTC results in job creation across a variety of fields—bringing opportunities to healthcare providers, daycare and primary school teachers, factory workers and more.
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Vince Toye, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
Students ages 8 to 14 from San Ildefonso, a primary school that dates back more than 500 years, revealed the winners by singing the numbers and the corresponding prize amounts, which are drawn from wooden balls.
—Hannah Peart, NBC News, 23 Dec. 2024
After Karen agreed, Brenda enrolled Nicole in a local primary school.
—Nicole Briese, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
In the past, whenever fighting broke out, the organization would also serve any civilian seeking shelter in the enclave’s 300 primary schools—protected by the blue flag of the United Nations.
—Karl Vick, TIME, 22 Nov. 2024
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Vince Toye, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
Students ages 8 to 14 from San Ildefonso, a primary school that dates back more than 500 years, revealed the winners by singing the numbers and the corresponding prize amounts, which are drawn from wooden balls.
—Hannah Peart, NBC News, 23 Dec. 2024
After Karen agreed, Brenda enrolled Nicole in a local primary school.
—Nicole Briese, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
In the past, whenever fighting broke out, the organization would also serve any civilian seeking shelter in the enclave’s 300 primary schools—protected by the blue flag of the United Nations.
—Karl Vick, TIME, 22 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for primary school
- secondary school
- elementary school
- high school
- public school
- junior high school
- common school
- senior high school
- middle school
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In 2023, the district voted him secondary school teacher of the year.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
18 Jan. 2025
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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
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The couple met in elementary school and began dating in high school.—
John Yoo and John Shu,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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Other revelations in the diary include information about Henderson’s social media accounts being suspended for praising acts of mass violence and other school shootings, including a massacre at a Nashville elementary school in 2023.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
23 Jan. 2025
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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
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Prior to The Bee, Smith covered high school sports at the Citrus Heights Sentinel.—
Marcus D. Smith,
Sacramento Bee,
31 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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No one in the group is a stranger—a handful of them are the surfer and skater boys that so many of us had crushes on in middle school.—
Emma Marie Jenkinson,
Vogue,
24 Jan. 2025
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This year’s finalists include two U.S. History high school teachers, a teacher of appliance and refrigeration repair at a technical school and a middle school orchestra teacher.—
Clara-Sophia Daly,
Miami Herald,
23 Jan. 2025
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