Thesaurus results for PUBLIC SCHOOL

public school

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Definition of public school

as in high school

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Recent Examples of public school Plantation resident Candice D’Angelo’s seventh-grader goes to a Catholic school, and her first- and fourth-graders attend a public school. — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026 Chicago Public Schools, the nation’s third-largest district, enrolls more than 300,000 children — 1 in 6 Illinois public school students — and could play a defining role in the success of this groundbreaking initiative. — Vanessa Andersen, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026 Critics of the program are right that the tax program won’t help every child, but this is just as true of a public school system that fails every year to meet the needs of tens of thousands of Maryland’s children. — Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 8 Oct. 2026 As investigators and the public scrutinize Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ finances, a two-year-old debate over how much spending should require a public school board vote is getting another look. — Charlotte Observer, 7 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for public school

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Noun

Southern California is full of future college and NFL officials starting out as high school officials.

— Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
Sierra’s mother, Mercedes Pedraza, testified that Sierra wasn’t the same after the accident and had frequent tantrums, refused to follow rules and ultimately dropped out of high school.

— Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of high school

Noun

The 529 accounts are meant to invest for qualified educational expenses, such as college tuition, trade school, and student loans, among other expenses.

— Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
Financial literacy requirements need to be increased for high school graduation and admission to any American university as well as any trade school or enlistment in the United States military.

— Doug Wojcieszak, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of trade school

Noun

Goldee’s was opened in 2020 by former junior high school classmates Jonny White, Jalen Heard and Lane Milne.

— Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Oct. 2026
From medicine to computer science After his kindergarten experience watching a brain surgery video, Alwakeel had little opportunity to pursue his medical dreams in elementary and junior high school.

— Beth Reese Cravey, Florida Times-Union, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of junior high school

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Hand in hand with that was the rise of literacy and the universal common school movement.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026
Being outside of the scope of the requirement of the statutory definition of the common school system, charter schools fail to meet the definition required of a common school.

— Peter Greene, Forbes.com, 20 Feb. 2026

Definition of common school

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It was expanded to all secondary athletics, including middle school athletics, Friday.

— Tom Dougherty, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Check out the grand prize winner for middle school, who talks about her dyslexia, and for high school, who discusses an important family memory.

— Brittney Melton, NPR, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of middle school

Noun

Some primary and secondary school exams scheduled for those days were also postponed in Mauritius and on the nearby islands of Rodrigues and Agaléga, while international exams would go ahead.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
The February attack on a secondary school in the small town at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains was Canada’s deadliest school shooting in decades, leaving eight people dead, including six children, and dozens wounded.

— Max Saltman, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of secondary school

Noun

Library patron Betsie Hale did quilling years ago when her children were in grammar school, making Christmas ornaments on white paper with pearls or rhinestones for her kids to give away as presents.

— Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
Lowden and Smith were grammar school classmates and later served time together in Wethersfield.

— Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026

Definition of grammar school

Noun

This would be required for elementary, junior and senior high schools.

— Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 May 2026
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.

— Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 25 Apr. 2026

Definition of senior high school

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