Junior high: 1 n a secondary school usually including 7th and 8th grades Synonyms: junior high school Type of: Gymnasium, lycee, lyceum, middle school, secondary school a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12.

• Your third year of high school. Junior year means you are finally an upperclassman, after two years of crap at the sophomore and freshman ranks. However, as a junior, you still aren't the top dogs in the.
• / ˈdʒunjər ˈhɑɪ ˌskul / (short form junior high, us / ˈdʒunjər ˈhɑɪ /) a school for children who are 12 to 15 years old (Definition of junior high school from the Cambridge.
• A school attended after elementary school and usually consisting of grades seven through nine.

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(countable and uncountable, pluraljunior high schools)

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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