middle schoolers
Sixth through eighth
Middle schoolers are students attending middle school, typically ages eleven to fourteen, bridging elementary and high school.
The term often carries connotations of awkwardness—the age of braces, growth spurts, and social anxieties: Middle schoolers can be brutal to each other.
Adults sometimes use it dismissively to suggest immature behavior: The comments section reads like it was written by middle schoolers.
- preteensChildren ages nine-twelve
- studentsThose receiving instruction
- homeworkStudent assignments for outside class
- teachersThose who instruct students
- pubertySexual development stage
braces · lockers · school · education · growth spurts · teenage · peer pressure · textbooks · cliques · adolescents · changing bodies · identity formation · brain development · peer influence · passing notes · gym class · friendships · best friends forever
- adolescencepuberty, teenager, coming-of-age, growing up, teen
- student typesjocks, kindergartners, nerds, first graders, geeks
- kid activitiesplaying, running, jumping, climbing, swinging
- youngsterskids, children, youngsters, toddlers, babies
- teensteenagers, teen, teens, teenager, adolescents
- tweenstweens, tween, preteens, preteen, preadolescent
middle schoolerssenior citizens
Older adults, typically retired
elderly · adults · retirees · octogenarians · grown-ups
middle schoolersgraduate students
Seekers of advanced degrees
university students · high schoolers · postdocs · preschoolers · elementary schoolers
middle, midpoint, middling, midget, middles, amidst, midsize, middler, middle school