middle school
Americannoun
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middle schools
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of middle school
First recorded in 1830–40
Example Sentences
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Wildlife officials tranquilized a mountain lion that was spotted in Pasadena near an elementary and middle school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
I was in middle school and near the beginning of high school when he was first president.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
Students returning to a Kentucky middle school this year learned something surprising on their first day of class: They don’t live in Kentucky.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Trump first entered politics when the women were in middle school, says her friend Emily Villalpando, 21.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
On March 18, two days before the Library Olympic Games were scheduled to start, Mrs. Yunghans, the middle school librarian, showed Team Kyle a viral video of Marjory Muldauer’s brilliant performance at the Midwest finals.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
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