In reality, 38 % of those who entered the high
school in ninth grade were accepted to college, 25 students out of the original 64 ninth graders.
Students apply
in their ninth grade year, though some students who are younger and meet the admissions criteria have been admitted.
A child who reads at a ninth grade level in the second grade is different from a child who reads at a second grade
level in the ninth grade.
Always wondering
how in the ninth grade my brother went from being like me to getting straight A's — I never knew how that happened.
A struggling first grade reader has a nearly 90 percent chance of still struggling in fourth grade; three out of four struggling third grade readers are still
behind in ninth grade.
My high school students built their personal portfolio
website in ninth grade and updated it again in tenth grade.
In their causal system analysis, the team learned that every year between 16 and 20 % of their students were being held back or
retained in ninth grade.
Middle school academic performance is a key predictor of
success in ninth grade, where course completion is the most accurate predictor of graduation.
The results showed a continued racial divide —
in ninth grade language arts, about 90 percent of white students are in honors, compared to less than 50 percent of black students.
Being in the choice
program in ninth grade increases by four to seven percentage points a student's prospects of both graduating from high school and enrolling in college.
Teens who
diet in ninth grade are three times more likely than their peers to be overweight in 12th grade, he notes.
Students would start in the
school in ninth grade and remain for six years, receiving an associate degree as well as a high school diploma.
We assume that fewer students will graduate than
started in the ninth grade and even fewer children will graduate than started in kindergarten.
A child's attendance
rate in ninth grade is a better indicator of dropping out than test scores.
Homeschooled since the seventh grade, he began taking science and math courses
in the ninth grade at the University of Wisconsin — Platteville.
Students in her ninth grade English class usually spend February immersed in King Arthur, studying legend and learning to write research papers.
The District should closely watch the cohort of students who are
in ninth grade as their current academic achievements will shape graduation rates.
Youth suspended just
once in ninth grade are twice as likely to drop out of school compared to their peers.
Students who wish to have all collegiate options down the road will need to take a rigorous course load,
beginning in ninth grade.
Although more precise calculations showed that the path was not going to be that close, the «near miss» was still the talk of the
day in my ninth grade physical science class.
In my ninth grade classroom, January starts with a video about John Foppe, born with no arms, who excelled as an honor student, drove his own car, and became a successful psychologist and speaker while creatively using his feet.
After controlling for students» perceptions of their own math competence, their overall GPA, and the education levels of their parents, the authors found ninth - grade math achievement had a significant effect on career aspirations — not
just in ninth grade but even after high school graduation.4 Math achievement, specifically, seemed to affect career goals above and beyond overall academic achievement.
Using the most conservative 4 % voucher advantage from our study, that means that the 801 students
in ninth grade in the voucher program in 2006 included 32 extra graduates who wouldn't have completed high school and gone to college if they had instead been required to attend MPS.
Backup guard Jack McGuinness first saw
Houston in the ninth grade, when the two faced each other in pickup games of one - on - one.
Kids at my school began building their
resumes in ninth grade, taking as many AP classes as possible even if the classes were subjects they had no interest in and required cheating to get through.
In fact, students who
excel in ninth grade are far more likely to graduate high school, enroll in college and remain in college beyond their freshman year, than are students who struggled through their first year of high school.