junior high school

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Recent Examples of junior high school Adventures Beyond This World centers on the journey of Ryusukue (voiced by Zach Aguilar in the English dub), a junior high school student living in Tokyo who visits his rural-dwelling teenage cousin Tomomi (voiced by Ren Holly Liu in the English dub) for summer vacation. Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 15 Nov. 2025 My junior high school yearbook picture drives that truth home. Josh Browning, Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025 As the mean girl of the town's junior high school, Amber uses her popularity to hurt Kat instead of treating her nicely. Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025 George Clinton and the Parliaments played at my junior high school. Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for junior high school
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Noun
  • Zamora supports giving middle and high school communities the option to have an officer on campus at least part-time.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Brown played tackle football in high school at Central Heights in Richmond, Kansas, about 15 miles from Ottawa, before becoming a record-setting linebacker for the program.
    PJ Green April 30, Kansas City Star, 30 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The son of a minor industrialist in Karachi, Naqvi studied at a British-style grammar school and then the London School of Economics, before working at Amex and Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm that would later be destroyed in the Enron scandal.
    Hettie O'Brien, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026
  • After the school board decided not to appeal, the students returned to the grammar school.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 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
  • The contest has three student categories for grades K-8, grades 9-2 and college/trade school students.
    Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The share of teenagers considering vocational or trade school has more than doubled, from 12% in 2018 to 30% in 2024, according to JLL.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026

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

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