How to Use middle school in a Sentence

middle school

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  • And most start in high school, not middle school, to prep their kids for the process.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The parents and Cuong Tran and Huy Tran have been friends since middle school, the law firm says.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Their 11-year-old twin boys will get a phone in middle school, too.
    — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Back then, middle school sucked the little joy there was out of life.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2023
  • The key is to start young—around middle school or even earlier.
    — Monika Mueller, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The board at the time also opted to change a middle school's mascot.
    — Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024
  • The new policy required the school to accept 1.5% of the eighth-grade class at each of the district’s middle schools.
    — USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Ethan was a student at the middle school and Samantha was a graduate of the high school.
    — Jennifer Edwards Baker, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2023
  • At that time, the student was playing on a middle school girls’ soccer team.
    — Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The high school and a neighboring middle school is closed Friday, the district said.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Gabrielle Johnson said middle school was the toughest stage.
    — Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The sleepless nights ahead, the tantrums and book reports and standardized tests and the million ways that kids in middle school are mean.
    — Allegra Goodman, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Faced with a constrained budget, the district shuttered the middle school.
    — Becca Savransky, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2023
  • But there are kids here now who were in middle school when Greenwood made that semistate run.
    — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Feb. 2023
  • She was teased in middle school for her accent and for receiving a free lunch.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Karon Blake, 13, was shot in the Brookland neighborhood, near his middle school.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Raised in Newport Beach, Colin first met Hotchkiss in middle school.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 22 May 2024
  • Declining interest in the sport and the fact there are no wrestling teams at the local middle schools played a big role in the program’s demise.
    — Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The boundary study will mainly focus on the middle schools, Mulford said.
    — Al Gaspeny, Arkansas Online, 28 July 2023
  • The middle school program includes kids going to the high school to see the varsity practices.
    — Aj Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Black is 5 feet, 2 inches tall and played point guard for her high school and middle school basketball teams.
    — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The wooded area behind her middle school is among the search locations.
    — Elizabeth Pritchett, Fox News, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The Invention of Middle School In the 1960s, one scholar writes, there was no grand vision behind the idea of a middle school.
    — JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
  • As a result, she was poorly equipped to handle middle school, Black said.
    — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
  • In middle school, Otieno would invite classmates eating lunch alone to join him, Ouko said.
    — Aditi Sangal, CNN, 21 Mar. 2023
  • At 12, Sauvie has earned a black belt in tae kwon do, danced competitively and plays the snare drum in her middle school band.
    — Stephanie Gallman Jordan, Southern Living, 5 July 2024
  • For a year, Field taught improv and scene study to middle school students at an after-school program in Rockville.
    — Katia Parks, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2023
  • The new middle school's name was approved by board members at a recent board meeting.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The books went on to spawn hundreds of sequels and spin-offs detailing the twins at different ages, ranging from middle school to college.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 30 July 2024
  • Other families decide to homeschool their children for their early years but enroll their children in school during their middle school or high school years.
    — ​wendy Wisner, Parents, 25 July 2024

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