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junior high

NOUN
generally, 6th-8th grades
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Were you junior high class president, or were you in the Boy Scouts?

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

Some shell out tens of thousands of dollars for consultants as early as junior high.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

He only studied music in junior high school but continued playing and touring through 2025.

From Barron's • Feb. 21, 2026

And then he talked about Greenland, teasing his remarks as if he were standing on a junior high school stage introducing an eighth-grade production of “We’re No Angels.”

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026

I still haven’t gotten used to how much bigger junior high is than elementary school, and how you can be in a class with thirty other kids and not know any of them.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée




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