junior high

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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

I am in the same general age bracket as Ms. Noonan and I can recall the nuclear-attack drills we all experienced in elementary and junior high school.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

“We will all bow out someday but hopefully not anytime soon,” added Art, a friend since junior high who’s the Mexiclan’s resident Aristotle.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 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

It’s hard to believe that my first year of junior high is almost over.

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