Sentences with phrase «ninth graders based»

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School - based studies in the past have found that nearly 9 percent of ninth through 12th graders experience physical dating violence, and 10 percent to 25 percent experience dating violence when including both physical and verbal aggression.

Between fall 2002 and fall 2008, the school district closed 23 large failing high schools (with graduation rates below 45 percent), opened 216 new small high schools (with different missions, structures, and student selection criteria), and implemented a centralized high school admissions process that assigns over 90 percent of the roughly 80,000 incoming ninth - graders each year based on their school preferences.

The inaugural class of 110 ninth graders, admitted on the basis of grades, recommendations, interviews, and test scores, takes lab courses in biochemistry and engineering.

The North STEM Academy offers incoming ninth graders a project - based learning approach as a means to studying Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.

High schools are rated based on whether ninth graders are on track to graduate on time and whether students have access to dual credit programs like Running Start or Advanced Placement Classes.

Spread out among the retro - chic sofas and love seats of the Bar Hygge brewpub in Philadelphia's gentrified Fairmount neighborhood, a class of ninth - graders from Vaux Big Picture High School listens to restaurant co-owner Stew Keener talk about the collaboration and problem - solving that occurs on a daily basis in the food business.

Based on this year's base grant for average daily attendance, the district would miss out on over $ 34,000 for every ninth grader who dropped out of school.

And she started a new computer - based class to help struggling ninth - graders master algebra.