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
  • School buses then made their way to the secondary school around 4:45 p.m.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Around the world, 50 million girls of secondary school age won't get to go back to school this fall.
    — Glamour, 4 Oct. 2017
  • On June 22, the town had a groundbreaking for a new secondary school.
    — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Boko Haram had kidnapped the girls from a local secondary school on Feb. 19.
    — Anne Branigin, The Root, 21 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Notably, girls are far more likely to drop out of secondary school than boys (see chart 2).
    — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • 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 mayor was scheduled to vote at a secondary school, but wasn't able to do it because police blocked access to the polling station.
    — Bloomberg.com, 2 Oct. 2017
  • 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 book won the two major prizes in science fiction, the Hugo and Nebula awards, and is widely taught in secondary schools and colleges.
    — The New York Times, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Jan. 2018
  • 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 two Havre de Grace secondary schools are due to be replaced by a single building, costing some $87 million.
    — The Aegis, 30 Mar. 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
  • As a result in primary and secondary schools, the Koran is mainly taught.
    — TIME.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • Schuster said, noting that most secondary schools in the district have a track-and-field area students will be encouraged to use.
    — Anne Geggis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Liam Payne's former secondary school is paying tribute to the singer following his death.
    — Jen Juneau, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024

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