elementary school

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Recent Examples of elementary school The other team, meanwhile, trotted out one of the most recognizable pitchers in the game, Spencer Strider, who was in elementary school when Morton first got to the big leagues. Said Bravo, CNN Money, 18 July 2025 The incident led to the lockdown of nearby Christian Brothers High School and Father Keith B. Kenny and Oak Ridge elementary schools. Sacbee.com, 14 July 2025 Unlike in elementary school, students in middle and high school often have up to seven different teachers each year. Michael Maguire, Boston Herald, 12 July 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for elementary school
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Noun
  • This is Heartlands Academy, a secondary school in Nechells, Birmingham, close to Spaghetti Junction and precisely two miles from Villa Park.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 4 July 2025
  • The trend began slowly, in the nineteen-eighties, when secondary schools with big-time basketball programs—notably, Oak Hill Academy, in rural Virginia, the alma mater of Rod Strickland, Anthony, and Durant—began recruiting the country’s best players.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Looking at primary schools alone, the U.S. spends the sixth most of the 37 countries, with $15,270 per pupil.
    Caleb McCullough, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • According to the World Economic Forum, 65% of today’s primary school kids will work in jobs that don’t yet exist.
    Margie Warrell, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
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 move sparked anxiety, confusion and intense pushback from public school districts and advocates nationwide.
    Rachel Wegner, The Tennessean, 27 July 2025
  • This year, state lawmakers approved a $8.5 billion bump for public schools, the first comprehensive increase in state funding for public schools since 2019.
    Keri Heath, Austin American Statesman, 25 July 2025
Noun
  • The Cups 4 Cancer fundraiser will be dedicated to Austin’s former junior high school teammate Dylan Krestan, who has battled Hodgkin lymphoma for the last several months.
    Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2025
  • The controversy in Loudoun County came the day after parents and residents clashed at a school board meeting in the Chicago area on Monday after a trans junior high school student won multiple events at a local track meet.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • But what can’t be turned into banter is the fact that Dyer’s mother was responsible for cooking much of that food—at the very school young Geoff attended before grammar school.
    James Wood, New Yorker, 14 July 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Children in the Waukegan Park District’s Before and After School program (BASE) get an opportunity to form friendships with youngsters who are not in the same elementary school, but may become classmates in middle school and certainly in high school.
    Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2025
  • Finally, one of your suggestions is connect with other parents with similar mindsets on phones/social media before your kids get to middle school.
    Eileen Finan, People.com, 22 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

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