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noun

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

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Compare intermediate school.

Origin of middle school

First recorded in 1830–40

Words nearby middle school

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How to use middle school in a sentence

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.
D.C. completes a week of in-person classes: Low attendance, frustrated teachers, confident principals and happy students|Perry Stein|February 7, 2021|Washington Post
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.
If loving a piping hot chocolate lava cake is wrong, I don’t want to be right|Becky Krystal|February 4, 2021|Washington Post
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.
After months of planning, protests and false starts, D.C. students and teachers head to classes for first time in nearly a year|Perry Stein, Lauren Lumpkin, Joe Heim, Laura Meckler|February 2, 2021|Washington Post
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.
Essential workers get lost in the vaccine scrum as states prioritize the elderly|Lena H. Sun, Isaac Stanley-Becker, Akilah Johnson|February 1, 2021|Washington Post

When he got lost in middle school, skipping class and getting into trouble, she found a friend to home-school him.
Covid-19 destroyed a young man’s lungs. Can his foster mom let him go?|Steve Thompson|January 19, 2021|Washington Post
According to Pew, 14 of the 20 countries in the Middle East and North Africa have blasphemy laws.
In Defense of Blasphemy|Michael Tomasky|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In the middle of all of that past suffering and present-day conflict, this Cosby bomb was dropped.
Phylicia Rashad and the Cult of Cosby Truthers|Stereo Williams|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Although Huckabee's condescending tone - like that of an elementary school history teacher - makes it difficult to take seriously.
Huckabee 2016: Bend Over and Take It Like a Prisoner!|Olivia Nuzzi|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
Shot Down During the NYPD Slowdown|Michael Daly|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
And then I did teachers all throughout elementary school and junior high for my friends.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
Suddenly, however, he became aware of a small black spot far ahead in the very middle of the unencumbered track.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
The Seven-score and four on the six middle Bells, the treble leading, and the tenor lying behind every change, makes good Musick.
Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing|Richard Duckworth and Fabian Stedman
All my musical studies till now have been a mere going to school, a preparation for him.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
I ask for half a dozen projectors or so in every school, and for a well-stocked storehouse of films.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

British Dictionary definitions for middle school

middle school

noun

(in England and Wales) a school for children aged between 8 or 9 and 12 or 13Compare first school

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middle school

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