middle school

Questions about middle school

What does middle school mean?

middle school means "a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12".

What is another word for middle school?

Close synonyms include secondary school, lyceum, lycee, Gymnasium. 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 middle school a common word?

middle school 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.