junior high school

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Recent Examples of junior high school Baker’s 14-year-old daughter and Todd’s 14-year-old son were both in the junior high school class that Evans was teaching at the time, the mothers said. Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2025 Isabel’s dedication to her craft is evident in her commitment to vocal training in both classical voice and musical theatre, having worked with her current voice teacher since junior high school. Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2025 France saw a similar disconnect in 2020, when French junior high school teacher Samuel Paty was murdered by an Islamist extremist, after showing images of the prophet in class. Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Jan. 2025 And in a third incident, Sobel said, a junior high school student in Weston found two swastikas in his football locker. Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for junior high school
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Noun
  • LeBron James, who was a few days younger when the Cleveland Cavaliers selected him in 2003 out of high school.
    Tim Casey, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • Conor Schroeder, 18, is a senior in his fifth year of high school who is striving to graduate.
    Ashley Schwartz-Lavares, ABC News, 15 July 2025
Noun
  • The couple moved to Long Prairie in 1963, where Everett continued his 35-year teaching career in both junior and senior high school science.
    Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Two senior high school students at the San Diego Unified School District encouraged their peers in a blog post to avoid participating in the challenge.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • Yet, 80 percent of public school teachers are white, and less than 2 percent are Black men.
    Sonari Glinton, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
  • At least 13 Tennessee counties saw books removed from public school libraries from December 2023 to January 2025, marking the highest number of book removals the state has seen since the passage of the Age Appropriate Materials Act in 2022.
    Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • For example, enrollment in Catholic secondary schools in the United States was at just over one million students around the late 1960s and early 1970s, according to NCES data.
    Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2025
  • The selective integration of Austin secondary schools was expanded.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • The facility was also home to a grammar school for orphans, choirboys and boys who lived on the hospital’s land.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
  • In 1966, the school was moved to Breightmet, maintaining its status as a grammar school.
    Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Edge United Methodist Church, 441 S. Main Ave., Groveland, will have its annual Vacation Bible School from 9 a.m. to noon July 14-18 for kids in elementary school.
    Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 July 2025
  • After Carpenter’s exit, Yolanda Cargile stepped into the role of Hickman Mills superintendent, closing two elementary schools during her tenure and leaving with little warning February 2020 to become superintendent of the Center School District.
    Ilana Arougheti July 9, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • But many of the strongest math students take algebra in middle school, so high schools don’t get credit for those students’ algebra scores.
    Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 12 July 2025
  • The prioritization of middle school career exploration in multiple accountability systems reflects its clear importance in the state.
    Matt Gandal, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • Indiana University-Bloomington should not be turned into a trade school with Division One football and basketball.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2025
  • Meanwhile, their friends who didn’t go to college were enrolling in trade school or going directly to work in manufacturing, retail, hospitality, construction …basically everything else.
    Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 5 July 2025

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