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This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports.
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Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
The Young Cineastes Award was selected by a jury composed of high school students with a passion for cinema.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 11 Jan. 2026
The learning losses revealed in that report, September’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, show that vast numbers of high school seniors don’t even meet the most basic thresholds in reading or math.
—Mary Ellen Klas, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2026
In fact, there was one episode in particular that Feig noted came straight from his own awkward high school experience.
—Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 11 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for high school
- public school
- junior high school
- senior high school
- secondary school
- elementary school
- middle school
- common school
- primary school
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Married to a public school teacher and dad to two daughters.—
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Also annually, a third element is $300,000 to each of 13 state public school collegiate athletic departments.—
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Obviously, those people failed their junior high school math class.—
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Multiple vehicles were blocking the bus lane that day at the junior high school campus.—
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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.—
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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.—
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Prince George is also facing another major change, as he is set to turn 13 on July 22 and begin his secondary school career in the fall.—
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These groups provide financial help to elementary and secondary school students from low- and middle-income families.—
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One month after Amber’s murder, Williams visited her daughter’s elementary school classmates.—
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New Elementary School on Park Road CMS is constructing a new 45-classroom elementary school to serve students in Sedgefield and Dilworth, replacing Dilworth Elementary.—
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Matt Rakowich, 32, and Bryan Bennis, 33, are middle school friends turned real estate partners.—
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Nope In national-news humiliation, a Meridian middle school teacher inadvertently triggered a firestorm by refusing to remove two signs that had been in her classroom for four years.—
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Lawyers representing charter school interests argued such funding is constitutional as charter schools are held accountable by the state and fit the Kentucky Constitution's definition of a common school.—
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The common school movement also advocated for the right of girls to attend public schools—the first co-educational high school in America only opened in 1840—which became widespread by the 1870s.—
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Partnering with the Irish Department of Education, the commission asked primary school students to document the folklore in their own communities.—
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After leaving his post-graduate engineering job, Nye kicked off a career in comedy before landing a pilot that would land him in primary school classrooms for years to come.—
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“High school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high%20school. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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