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Recent Examples of secondary school
Starmer was commenting as Netflix agreed a deal to make Adolescence available to all secondary schools across the UK via the Into Film+ streaming service.
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Jake Kanter, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2025
Meanwhile, the United States’ educational improvements slowed markedly as secondary schools struggled to boost performance and college tuition marched steadily higher.
—Matthew J. Slaughter, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
First, throughout the world women outperform men in educational settings, outnumbering in the vast majority of academic degrees (including MBAs) and outscoring them on standardized assessments and GPA (same is true for primary and secondary school).
—Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
So was the girl leaving a village to attend secondary school, and the family accessing clean water for the first time.
—Michael J. Nyenhuis, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
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Jake Kanter, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2025
Meanwhile, the United States’ educational improvements slowed markedly as secondary schools struggled to boost performance and college tuition marched steadily higher.
—Matthew J. Slaughter, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
First, throughout the world women outperform men in educational settings, outnumbering in the vast majority of academic degrees (including MBAs) and outscoring them on standardized assessments and GPA (same is true for primary and secondary school).
—Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
So was the girl leaving a village to attend secondary school, and the family accessing clean water for the first time.
—Michael J. Nyenhuis, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for secondary school
- elementary school
- primary school
- high school
- public school
- junior high school
- senior high school
- middle school
- grammar school
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To manage student growth, the district is set to request $49 million to build a new elementary school.—
Nora O’Neill,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Apr. 2025
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The Best Dressed Avocado contest is open to elementary school children.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Apr. 2025
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The primary school layout also has an endearing charm, as each office was once a classroom for kids.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes,
22 Mar. 2025
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Over recent years 70,000 primary school teachers across England and Wales have also been given access to free resources to protect our planet, through Premier League Primary Stars, a program to inspire young people aged 5 to 11 years old.—
Claire Poole,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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In a series regular role, Pietz will play Donna, the no-nonsense high school secretary.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2025
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The pair went to different Frisco high schools, but were both at Kuykendall Stadium on April 2 for a track meet, where the alleged stabbing occurred.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Sanchez’s bill would require the organization that oversees public school sports and extracurricular activities to ban trans girls from playing women’s sports.—
Lia Russell,
Sacramento Bee,
25 Mar. 2025
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Shaun Law-Bowman, 67, spent 15 years as a public school teacher before moving into an administrative position.—
Noah Haggerty,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Mar. 2025
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But then in junior high school my world was rocked by one man: Bobby Caldwell.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
8 Apr. 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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Nothing was normal about this all-star matchup, which pitted 99 of the South Bay’s best senior high school football players against each other on North and South teams.—
Christian Babcock,
The Mercury News,
2 Feb. 2025
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About six companies specially recruit junior and senior high school students every fall, according to its website.—
Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Jan. 2025
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Students at a middle school in Germany staged a walkout in February over anti-DEI measures that was timed to coincide with Hegseth visiting the country.—
Lexi Lonas Cochran,
The Hill,
13 Apr. 2025
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Membership surveys have shown that many members of the AMS developed a passion for weather in elementary or middle school.—
Marshall Shepherd,
Forbes.com,
12 Apr. 2025
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As a kid in Los Angeles’s Chatsworth neighborhood, growing up on a property that had once belonged to cowboy star Roy Rogers, Kilmer began studying acting in grammar school, already dreaming of emulating Hollywood’s eccentric nonpareil, Marlon Brando.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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The first public school in the country, Boston Latin, was founded in Boston a year earlier; the state’s constitution required every town to establish grammar schools.—
Jenna Russell,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2025
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“Secondary school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/secondary%20school. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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