in No. 05 - 908, pp. 90a - 92a.1 The plan
allows incoming ninth graders to choose from among any of the district's high schools, ranking however many schools they wish in order of preference.
The North STEM Academy
offers incoming ninth graders a project - based learning approach as a means to studying Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.
Incoming ninth graders who are unprepared for high school coursework are more likely to drop out of high school, and this trajectory starts in middle school: Each course failed in eighth grade increases the odds of non-promotion from ninth to tenth grade by 16 %.
For example, Raise DC's Graduation Pathways Project has created a way for middle schools to easily share crucial information about alumni so that attending high schools can better
serve incoming ninth graders.
Ms. Johnson has developed and directed two summer transition courses
for incoming ninth graders, Algebridge (Cypress - Fairbanks ISD) and Algebra CAMP (Northside ISD).
Since he was
an incoming ninth grader, he's had that kind of pressure.»
She designed a program to improve those areas by providing guidance to
incoming ninth graders.
We need standard answers to questions like these: What constitutes
an incoming ninth grader?