middle school
- 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
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Contemporary Examples
In 2000, the comparable figures stood at 27.9 percent for high-school students and 10.7 percent for middle-school children.
At the end of the presentation, Obama met with three middle-school students from Haifa.
Snake Robots, Alternative Fuel & More Highlights From Obama’s Visit to the Israel MuseumEli Lake
March 21, 2013
A video snippet of Liu during a middle-school English language class “is the hottest thing on the Internet,” notes Chen.
It happened late in the day and captured about as much attention as a middle-school band recital.
And between 2008 and 2010, Oakland has outpaced the rest of California in improvement at the elementary- and middle-school levels.
Historical Examples
The most interesting feature of the meeting was old pupils' grateful recollections of Hearn, the middle-school teacher.
The Foundations of JapanJ.W. Robertson Scott
middle school
- (in England and Wales) a school for children aged between 8 or 9 and 12 or 13Compare first school
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