junior high school

English

Noun

junior high school (countable and uncountable, plural junior high schools) (education)

1. (US) A school for children who have completed elementary school or grade school, but are not yet old enough for high school. 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.

2. (Philippines) A secondary education school for grades 7 to 10 (a continuation of elementary school). It is succeeded by senior high school.

Synonyms

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

Translations

school for children that have completed elementary school

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 初級中學／初级中学 (zh) (chūjí zhōngxué), 初中 (zh) (chūzhōng)

• Finnish: peruskoulun yläaste
• Greek: γυμνάσιο (el) n (gymnásio)
• Indonesian: sekolah menengah pertama (id)
• Italian: scuola media (it) f
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• Vietnamese: trường trung học cơ sở