Sentences with phrase «graders repeated the grade»

For example, in 1999, 6.6 percent of first graders repeated the grade.

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They said the gains were inflated by the retention of low - performing 3rd graders after 2002, when Florida ended «social promotion» by requiring students who failed 3rd grade tests to repeat that grade.

A North Carolina study found that students who attended sixth grade at a middle school were more likely to be suspended, and later to repeat a grade or drop out of school, compared to counterparts who attended sixth grade in an elementary school.17 A longitudinal study of New York City sixth graders found that attending sixth grade in a middle school, as opposed to a K - 8 school, produced a negative impact on achievement that began in the first year and extended throughout the middle school years.