How to Use secondary school in a Sentence

secondary school

noun
  • Some were as young as eight, while others were in their last year of secondary school.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2016
  • If the cool girls in secondary school ranked me as pretty, then that too must have been true.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Juice will also be offered in secondary schools.
    — Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The secondary schools are even more expensive.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
  • Some did not even do primary school, others did not do secondary school.
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2018
  • Notably, girls are far more likely to drop out of secondary school than boys (see chart 2).
    — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Around the world, 50 million girls of secondary school age won't get to go back to school this fall.
    — Glamour, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Sulaiman was in his third year of the Madrasah Tsanawiyah, or secondary school.
    — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In secondary school, a music teacher helped unleash her voice.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • The new secondary school building is projected to open early next year.
    — cleveland, 6 Nov. 2020
  • My parents didn’t go to university — not even to secondary school, by the way.
    — Mishal Husain, Bloomberg, 15 May 2026
  • 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
  • Across from their home, a primary and secondary school sits battered on the valley’s edge.
    — Yousra Elbagir, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • On June 22, the town had a groundbreaking for a new secondary school.
    — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • In South Sudan, there will be no secondary school this fall for some refugee children.
    — New York Times, 22 Aug. 2022
  • For Prince George, going to secondary school might also mean getting his first cell phone.
    — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025
  • The tour will reach over 10,000 students in secondary schools and colleges.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The secondary school was briefly placed on lockdown before the pursuit continued.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The board is expected to vote on next steps for its secondary schools in June 2026.
    — Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • In 2023, the district voted him secondary school teacher of the year.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Meals served at elementary and secondary schools are up almost 300% from a year ago.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 10 May 2023
  • As a result in primary and secondary schools, the Koran is mainly taught.
    — TIME.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The bus was coming from the academy’s secondary school just over a mile away on Brewster Street.
    — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 2 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • The couple has decided where the 12-year-old royal will attend secondary school.
    — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 16 June 2026
  • There's no school for Vrana's two older children, who travel to Fourni for secondary school by ferry.
    — Sarah McCammon, NPR, 29 Oct. 2025
  • With a single earbud in, Kwaje crosses the road to one of Bidibidi’s five secondary schools.
    — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 17 June 2019

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