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middle school

noun

  1. a school intermediate between elementary school and high school, usually encompassing grades five or six through eight.


middle school

noun

  1. (in England and Wales) a school for children aged between 8 or 9 and 12 or 13 Compare first school
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of middle school1

First recorded in 1830–40
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Example Sentences

Rachel Thomas, a middle school teacher at School Without Walls at Francis Stevens in Northwest Washington, said teaching the children in front of her and those at home at the same time has been an adjustment.

Perhaps it jumped the shark long before it started showing up on chain restaurant menus or as middle school chorus fundraisers, as I seem to recall.

At the middle school and high school levels, some students may be reporting to classrooms for only a few hours each week to receive academic support or to take a technical education class in person.

Omaha’s teachers union had wanted its approximately 4,100 members to get shots before the district resumes full-time, in-person instruction for elementary and middle school students Tuesday.

When he got lost in middle school, skipping class and getting into trouble, she found a friend to home-school him.

Mehdi Bayati has been putting forward the same argument as my middle school teachers.

So, the display—which has the aesthetic sophistication of a middle school science project—will go up for week.

For the first time since that peak of confusion, insecurity, and uncertainty called middle school, I felt truly alone.

In fact, Austin native McKenzie grew up a jock, and even played middle school football with Drew Brees.

She was 16 when she enrolled in middle school, but her classmates teased her relentlessly.

Each middle school has a primary, and each high school a primary and a middle, department.

Fridtjof was a diligent boy at school, especially at first, and passed his middle school examination6 successfully.

As a middle school teacher and as a professor in the University he was always democratic and simple in his life.

The Den, to a man, and the Middle school scarcely less unanimously.

The most interesting feature of the meeting was old pupils' grateful recollections of Hearn, the middle-school teacher.

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