This one is at the undergraduate level rather than the high-school level because it involves finite fields, but it certainly fits the title of this question: Dvir's proof of the finite field Kakeya conjecture. The stunningly short argument took the experts by surprise, and the fact that a degree-$d$ polynomial has at most $d$ zeros is one of the two key ingredients in the proof.
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