middle school

noun

a school intermediate between elementary school and high school, usually encompassing grades five or six through eight.

Origin

1830-40

Examples from the web for middle school

The world is still in middle school anxious to get to high school.
Each satellite has a small camera that middle school students can request be aimed at target areas on the moon for study.
Kids brainwashed by the time they are in middle school, and then grow up to be brainwashed parents.
If college level is too difficult, try high school and middle school texts of the same sort.
The receptors of the former are the rods and cones that you all learned about in middle school.
They are done at a caliber far beyond what you'd expect from the middle school and high school sciences.
As my kids have moved into the upper elementary and middle school grades, the time for a work-free summer has disappeared.
Even a middle school science student will understand this criticism.
Even middle school science students in decent old wold will understand that melting ice on ocean will not raise water level.
Some of them could not even write at a middle school level, much less a college level.

British Dictionary definitions for middle school

noun

(in England and Wales) a school for children aged between 8 or 9 and 12 or 13 Compare first school