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The arrest comes a day after an 11-year-old girl was arrested for stabbing a 12-year-old boy inside her Bronx junior high school.
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Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
3 Mar. 2026
The film, based on Koushun Takami’s novel of the same name, centers on a group of students in junior high school as they are forced to fight to the death by Japan’s totalitarian government.
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Zack Sharf,
Variety,
26 Nov. 2025
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.
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Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
15 Nov. 2025
My junior high school yearbook picture drives that truth home.
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Josh Browning,
Big Think,
28 Oct. 2025
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Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
3 Mar. 2026
The film, based on Koushun Takami’s novel of the same name, centers on a group of students in junior high school as they are forced to fight to the death by Japan’s totalitarian government.
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Zack Sharf,
Variety,
26 Nov. 2025
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
See All Example Sentences for junior high school
Recent Examples of Synonyms for junior high school
- high school
- senior high school
- public school
- secondary school
- grammar school
- elementary school
- middle school
- trade school
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The approach of the 250th anniversary has brought up complicated feelings for Galvan, 18, and Olivia Suarez, both of whom just finished high school in Long Beach, California.
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Elle is in high school when her parents relocated to Seattle, and the first season follows her attempts to find a path in the Pacific Northwest, helped along by her mother’s guidance.
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This would be required for elementary, junior and senior high schools.
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Yet running in a pro race in Europe after that senior high school season in 2004, Rupp came up more than 36 seconds off of Chapa’s time.
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The two companies violated the law by repeatedly giving cash stipends and personal travel rewards to public school employees — primarily teachers — for organizing school trips and recruiting students for the trips, according to the State Ethics Commission.
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Cothiere and Hill are both active public school teachers.
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According to the law, officers generally cannot arrest someone under SB 4 at a public or private primary or secondary school.
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At 16, Elizabeth had just written her Basic Education Certificate Examination, an important academic milestone for junior secondary school students in Ghana seeking to advance to higher education.
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He was born in New York and grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, starting his grammar school’s first newspaper before writing a humor column for the newspaper while a student at Morristown High School.
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He was born in New York and grew up in Morristown, New Jersey, starting his grammar school’s first newspaper before writing a humor column for the newspaper while a student at Morristown High School.
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The required reading list will take effect beginning with the 2030-31 school year for elementary school students.
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The rollout will be staggered, starting with elementary school students in 2030.
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Whereas John Wooden or Dean Smith may have figured out how to make it today, Bob Knight would be lucky to keep a job as a gym teacher at a middle school in Homeless, Ohio.
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An announcement over the intercom of the middle school Anderson and her sister, Cassie, attended changed that.
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Fortunately, some lenders offer student loans specifically designed for trade school, though they may be labeled as career training loans or something similar.
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More than 90% of the children in the student advocate program were accepted into college, trade school or the military after graduating high school, according to program records.
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“Junior high school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/junior%20high%20school. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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