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junior high

NOUN
generally, 6th-8th grades
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Winterich told me about a pair of basketball shorts she kept from junior high.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Syarifah Hatifah, the 57-year-old vice principal of a junior high school in provincial capital Pontianak, fears some of her nearly 600 pupils may be falling behind.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

Were you junior high class president, or were you in the Boy Scouts?

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026

Hernandez went home and had her phone taken away, but Burke allegedly paid a junior high school student $1,000 to give her a new device so they could stay in touch.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

In junior high, we run a mile every week and we’re supposed to get faster each time.

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


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