high school

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Recent Examples of high school Bremen Associate Principal Matt Meany is taking the mantel as the high school’s new leader. Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026 Eligibility could soon be restricted to the five years that start upon high school graduation or an athlete’s 19th birthday, whichever happens first. Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 30 Apr. 2026 Toward the end of high school, Burick realized that college wouldn’t be the right environment for him. IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2026 Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Ocvarsity Sports Staff, Oc Register, 30 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for high school
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Noun
  • Since then, the Department of Health has started the rulemaking process of repealing requirements for Hepatitis B, varicella (chicken pox), Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib) and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines for public school attendance.
    CBS Miami Team, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Crooms, a Seminole County public school, has had boys volleyball for 16 years but scored its first district title with its 1A District 5 final victory over Cornerstone.
    Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Two days after the hearing a class of junior high school students unrolled a fifty-foot-long petition down the middle aisle of the city council chamber in nearby Baytown.
    Scott W. Stern, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Years later, when his son was in junior high school, his teacher asked him to help his son with a history project.
    Edie Kasten, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The Denver Post will present the April Heinrichs Award to an extraordinary senior high school girls soccer player from Colorado who’s also a star in the classroom and the community.
    The Denver Post, Denver Post, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Principals could designate supervised areas where more senior high school students can briefly use their phones for multifactor authentication.
    Corinne Brion, The Conversation, 4 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • People stand at the courtyard of a secondary school where an assailant opened fire, in Kahramanmaras, Turkey, April 15, 2026.
    CBS News, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The secondary school was briefly placed on lockdown before the pursuit continued.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Authorities announced the arrest Wednesday of a Long Island PTA mom accused of siphoning more than $50,000 from an elementary school over a three-year span while she was employed as a New York Police Department officer.
    Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Al-Shayeb hopes its value will be widespread, giving centralized information to anyone from experienced ecologists to interested elementary school classrooms.
    Madeline King, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Work on the new middle school project will begin in just a few weeks.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Five middle school students are being hailed as heroes after jumping in to stop their school bus when their driver lost consciousness.
    Yi-Jin Yu, ABC News, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Being outside of the scope of the requirement of the statutory definition of the common school system, charter schools fail to meet the definition required of a common school.
    Lucas Aulbach, Louisville Courier Journal, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Here are the most common schools represented among ASU grads in 2025: Engineering Liberal Arts and Sciences New College Teachers College Design and the Arts Health Solutions Public Service and Community Solutions Helen Rummel covers higher education for The Arizona Republic.
    Helen Rummel, AZCentral.com, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • While disrupting the business of an American multinational company may seem a pallid response to the destruction of an Iranian primary school where more than a hundred children were killed, such asymmetric attacks in the physical and digital realms have been a feature of this conflict.
    Sue Halpern, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
  • These key distinctions make AI education more than a buzzword, highlighting the real-world difference between pupils learning career-ready technical skills versus efforts to force the nascent technology into primary school classrooms.
    Catherine Thorbecke, Boston Herald, 18 Apr. 2026

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“High school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high%20school. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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