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• Junior High School Meaning
• Junior High School Diploma

Junior High School Meaning

'Senior High School' is a term left over from the days when the US divided schools into primary school (grades 1-6, referred to as 'elementary school') and secondary school (grades 7 - 12, referred to as 'high school'.) Then 'high school' divided into 'junior high school' (grades 7. High school in the old system consisted of First Year to Fourth Year. What corresponds to those four years today are Grades 7 to 10, also known as junior high school (JHS).

Noun[edit]

(countable and uncountable, pluraljunior high schools)

Junior High School Diploma

1. (education) A school for children who have completed elementary school or grade school, but are not yet old enough for high school. In the US, it often includes grades 7 and 8, and possibly also 6 or 9.
   • 1919, Guy Vernon Bennett, The Junior High School, Warwick & York, page 1:

     In California the term originally used was 'intermediate high school,' later shortened to 'intermediate school,' but the term 'junior high school' is rapidly supplanting the others.

Synonyms[edit]

• (school between elementary and high school):intermediate high school, intermediate school, junior high, middle school

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