middle school
noun
a school intermediate between elementary school and high school, usually encompassing grades five or six through eight.
middle schools
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pluralof middle school.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The games, held at local middle schools, lasted an NBA-length 48 minutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
This season has been another challenging time with practices at night and at middle schools until the high school gym was finally re-opened at the end of January.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2026
“We are communicating with a cluster of schools, so all the other high schools, middle schools and elementary schools in the area, they’re doing the same thing.”
From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2026
In 2018, France already banned children from using mobile phones in "colleges", the middle schools children attend between the ages of 11 and 15.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
But Malik and I are only baseball-team friends, because we go to different middle schools and live twenty minutes apart.
From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner
