high_school has definitions from the field of education
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[ noun ] (education) a public secondary school usually including grades 9 through 12

Examples

"he goes to the neighborhood highschool"

Used in print

(The Dallas Morning News,...)

Dr._Clark has served as teacher and principal in Oklahoma high_schools , as teacher and athletic director at Raymondville_,_Texas_,_High_School , as an instructor at the University_of_Oklahoma , and as an associate_professor of education at Fort_Hays_,_Kan._,_State_College .

(The Dallas Morning News,...)

`` I kicked about 110 extra_points in 135 tries during three years in high_school '' , he said , `` and made 26 in_a_row at one time .

(Bonnie Prudden, "The Dancer and the Gymnast"...)

If we wait until children are in junior_high or high_school , we will never manage it .

(Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)

Publishers want books that will sell , recording_studios want discs that will not seem strange to ears used_to hillbilly and jazz music , grade and high_schools want quaint , but moral , material .

(Frederick Mosteller et al., Probability with...)

Ten students act_as managers for a high-school football_team , and of these managers a proportion p are licensed drivers .

Related terms

secondary_school

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