as in high school
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an educational institution that includes the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades and often also the 9th grade
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Recent Examples of senior high school
At Wayne Local Schools, Shelby Herlihy is the new assistant principal at the junior/senior high school and Kevin Wright is the new director of student services and special education.
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Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2024
The bond issue would have paid for: Classroom additions to the junior and senior high schools along with Spaulding Elementary School.
—Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 21 Mar. 2024
After serving as Theater Director at Windham High School for a total of 12 years (staging 28 stage productions, 14 of which were musicals), Iovine retired in December of 2016 after 32 years as a junior and senior high school English/Journalism teacher and drama director.
—Melanie Savage, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2022
In 2005, an American teenager, Natalee Holloway, disappeared on a senior high school class trip to Aruba.
—Christine Hauser, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
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Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2024
The bond issue would have paid for: Classroom additions to the junior and senior high schools along with Spaulding Elementary School.
—Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 21 Mar. 2024
After serving as Theater Director at Windham High School for a total of 12 years (staging 28 stage productions, 14 of which were musicals), Iovine retired in December of 2016 after 32 years as a junior and senior high school English/Journalism teacher and drama director.
—Melanie Savage, Hartford Courant, 13 June 2022
In 2005, an American teenager, Natalee Holloway, disappeared on a senior high school class trip to Aruba.
—Christine Hauser, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for senior high school
- high school
- junior high school
- public school
- secondary school
- elementary school
- grammar school
- middle school
- primary school
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Day two of the Texas high school boys basketball UIL state championships are here.—
Charles Baggarly and,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Mar. 2025
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Ryan Rodriguez got his first true glimpse of just how good Carson Beck could be when the two were both still in high school.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
8 Mar. 2025
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The series at the time focused on Hayley Mills, who played the title character, and her students at an Indianapolis junior high school.—
Rick Porter,
The Hollywood Reporter,
4 Mar. 2025
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While days were spent instructing junior high school students in the Washington area, Flack's nights coalesced around her budding music career.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA TODAY,
24 Feb. 2025
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Many Mennonite families don’t send children to public schools.—
Carlos Nogueras Ramos,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Mar. 2025
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In interviews with The News, parents have repeatedly expressed a desire to remain in the city, but a struggle to make ends meet while waiting for public school.—
Cayla Bamberger,
New York Daily News,
4 Mar. 2025
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Instead, the hardline Islamist group has done an about-face and banned women from going to university, closed secondary schools and beauty salons, and stopped women from working at NGOs, including at the United Nations.—
Salma Abdelaziz,
CNN,
23 Jan. 2025
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Historic buildings, elementary and secondary schools, manufacturing buildings, agricultural buildings and federal buildings can apply to be exempted.—
Christine Condon,
Baltimore Sun,
15 Jan. 2025
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The monthly goal is to give away about a thousand books, usually to elementary schools, middle schools and different children’s organizations, or to have students come into the bookstore and clear the shelves themselves.—
Shanzeh Ahmad,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Mar. 2025
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The club’s goal is to honor students at Barnard, Kate Sessions and Pacific Beach elementary schools and Crown Point Junior Music Academy.—
Elizabeth Marie Himchak,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Feb. 2025
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Part track meet, part grammar school fitness test, the combine is a vital cog in the NFL draft’s evaluation machine 🏃🏾♂️. March 10 — Free agent negotiating period begins.—
Jim Reineking,
USA TODAY,
25 Feb. 2025
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Dammers belonged to a generation that was pushed to pass the notorious eleven-plus exam and get into one of the United Kingdom’s supposedly superior grammar schools.—
Ian Penman,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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The system's junior high ranked first statewide among middle schools in overall ATLAS growth with a rate of 88.11%.—
Lena Miano,
arkansasonline.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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By middle school, many kids’ interest in learning falls off a cliff.—
Jenny Anderson,
The Atlantic,
26 Feb. 2025
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Project 2025 proposes that the government could support parents who choose to homeschool or put their kids in a religious primary school by providing Educational Savings Accounts and school vouchers.—
Alex Hinton,
The Conversation,
7 Feb. 2025
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The photographer’s first campaign under this new course showed a primary school class made up of a multiracial group of children.—
Luisa Zargani,
WWD,
13 Jan. 2025
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“Senior high school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/senior%20high%20school. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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