How to Use secondary school in a Sentence

secondary school

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  • About 100 of them are from the primary school and the rest from the secondary school.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • On June 22, the town had a groundbreaking for a new secondary school.
    — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The union and district agreed to the secondary school format as a way to keep students in small stable groups.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The course was designed to be taken over a term for children in the first or second year of secondary school.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 12 July 2022
  • At its best, then, the vibe is extremely secondary school.
    — Gabrielle Korn, refinery29.com, 1 Sep. 2020
  • In South Sudan, there will be no secondary school this fall for some refugee children.
    — New York Times, 22 Aug. 2022
  • When the four sold their startup, Auctomatic, for $5 million the next year, John was still in secondary school.
    — Alex Konrad, Forbes, 26 May 2022
  • Across from their home, a primary and secondary school sits battered on the valley’s edge.
    — Yousra Elbagir, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Of the nine arrested, six are secondary school students.
    — Fox News, 6 July 2021
  • With a single earbud in, Kwaje crosses the road to one of Bidibidi’s five secondary schools.
    — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • The money can grow tax-deferred and be used tax-free at virtually any post-secondary school in the U.S., as well as some abroad.
    — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 28 Dec. 2019
  • The new secondary school building is projected to open early next year.
    — cleveland, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Some did not even do primary school, others did not do secondary school.
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2018
  • The first day of instruction for Catholic elementary schools in the Archdiocese of Louisville is Aug. 14, but the start dates for secondary schools will vary.
    — Ben Tobin, The Courier-Journal, 25 July 2019
  • In my secondary school, [out of] 1,200 students, there were at most five students who were not white, Northern Irish, Protestant or Catholic.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 17 May 2021
  • In secondary school, a music teacher helped unleash her voice.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Meals served at elementary and secondary schools are up almost 300% from a year ago.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 10 May 2023
  • But back in 1894, that building was the entirety of St. Louis College, a solitary secondary school for boys with just a dirt trail leading to its doorstep.
    — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 23 June 2021
  • The district has instructed any secondary school that has not shared Chromebooks or tablets with students to do so by the end of week, Trejo said.
    — Corbett Smith, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2020
  • This year secondary schools are likelier to be oversubscribed than in past years, because of the abundance of 11-year-olds.
    — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The court adjourned what would have been a first hearing for Hui Tim-lik, because the secondary school student is still in a hospital in the wake of his arrest.
    — John Leicester, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Schools end at 2 p.m. for elementary and 1 p.m. for secondary school.
    — Alecia Taylor, Miami Herald, 10 June 2024
  • Pupils tested themselves for Covid-19 at a secondary school in Bonn, Germany, on Monday.
    — Bertrand Benoit, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The share of children in British secondary schools who learn a foreign language is at its lowest level in almost 20 years.
    — The Economist, 13 Sep. 2019
  • More protests, including a rally by secondary school students, are planned for the coming days.
    — Hillary Leung / Hong Kong, Time, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Abobigu dreamed of studying fashion, but her parents had no money to send her to secondary school.
    — Laura Kiniry, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Feb. 2022
  • This is a sad reflection on the failure of our secondary schools to provide a successful bridge from high school to college.
    — Washington Post, 5 July 2024
  • The researchers could not find a single secondary school for girls open in areas of heavy Taliban influence.
    — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 21 June 2018
  • For example, in South Africa, primary school is taught in Swahili, but secondary school is taught in English.
    — Sherrie Nachman, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Gottfried has two: one outside his secondary school and one on Steinfelder Gaße in the center of the city, the location of his last residence in Cologne.
    — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024

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