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junior_high_school
junior high school
English
Noun
junior high school (plural junior high schools)
- (education) A school for children that have completed elementary school or grade school, but are not yet old enough for high school. In the US, it often includes grades 6-9.
- 1919, Guy Vernon Bennett, The Junior High School, Warwick & York, page 1:
- In California the term originally used was "intermediate high school," later shortened to "intermediate school," but the term "junior high school" is rapidly supplanting the others.
- 1919, Guy Vernon Bennett, The Junior High School, Warwick & York, page 1:
Synonyms
- (school between elementary and high school): intermediate high school, intermediate school, junior high, middle school
Translations
school for children that have completed elementary school
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