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High school is an academic institution providing education more advanced than elementary school or middle school but less advanced than college. High school typically encompasses grades 9, 10, 11 and 12. (noun)

An example of high school is the local public school where 15 year olds attend.

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See high school in Webster's New World College Dictionary

☆ a secondary school that usually includes grades 10, 11, and 12, and sometimes grade 9 (and occasionally, esp. formerly, grades 7 and 8), and that offers academic or vocational subjects

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high-school adjective
high schooler or high-schooler

See high school in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A secondary school that usually includes grades 9 or 10 through 12.

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highˈ-schoolˌ (hīˈsko͞olˌ) adjective

high schoolˌer noun

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