junior high

1. 1.

   a secondary school usually including 7th and 8th grades

   Synonymsjunior high school

   Broadersecondary school

Questions about junior high

What does junior high mean?

junior high means "a secondary school usually including 7th and 8th grades".

What is another word for junior high?

Close synonyms include junior high school. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is junior high a common word?

junior high is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.