middle school
noun1
Education A school which crosses the traditional divide between primary school and secondary school.
2
Education An educational level or stage between primary school and secondary school.
- These authors argue that lists based on university-level reading material cannot be directly imported into contexts such as middle school since the lexical profiles of subjects and their vocabulary demands are different.2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 107:
- Synonyms
- intermediate school, junior high school
- Derived terms
- middle schooler
- Related terms
- comprehensive, grammar school, junior school, primary school, secondary modern, secondary school