Sentences with phrase «of ninth graders»

In 2008 - 2009, only 30 percent of ninth graders were promoted, while the next year, the figure went up to 63 percent.

The percentage of ninth graders earning 10 or more credits in a year increased from 82 percent the previous year to 97 percent.

According to a 2009 nationally representative survey of ninth grader, 17 percent of African American students reported going to class late «sometimes,» versus 10 percent of white students.

The school lives and dies on the math [and reading] scores of ninth graders.

The new small schools got new crops of ninth graders so it seems difficult to compare the new schools to the old schools since they have different kids.

In 2004 - 2005, the school only had a 73 % attendance rate, and 75 % of ninth graders failed at least one course.

The district is planning to implement the program with the first cohort of ninth graders in 2017 - 18, with the end goal of all students at every level in the program at 2022 - 23, Koenke said.

With a no - nonsense confidence, he reminds them how important the harbor - science course — which takes a group of ninth graders out for a daylong «classroom» on a local body of water once every two weeks — is to their school.

Charisse Smith is the mother of a ninth grader at Medgar Evers Preparatory School and a senior organizer with StudentsFirstNY, an education reform organization

Smith is the mother of a ninth grader at Medgar Evers Preparatory School and a senior organizer with StudentsFirstNY, an education reform organization.

A pack of ninth graders rush into my classroom and insist that I come to the girls» bathroom as quickly as possible.

Part of the reason for that result is that just 60 percent of its ninth graders graduated from high school within four years, and only 42 percent of adult residents aged 25 to 44 had spent some time in college.

One of the ninth graders elbowed his friend and boasted, «I'm kicking your butt.»

In the Los Angeles Unified School District alone, 44 percent of ninth graders enrolled in beginning algebra during the fall 2004 semester failed.

In one New Orleans high school, the percentage of ninth graders missing 20 or more days of school dropped from 79 percent to 52 percent.

Suzie Boss tells the story of a group of ninth graders, a topic that interested them, and the teacher who made it all happen.

In the new Locke there were to be a number of small baby Lockes, each beginning with one class of ninth graders, but scheduled to add an additional grade each year until they became full four - year high schools.

This statement comes from one of my ninth graders in response to yet another lecture of mine on how important it is for students to bring their literature books to class — a particular hurdle in my case because I teach at a military school....

At Miami Jackson Senior High School, about 27 percent of the ninth graders had poor attendance and the extra supports helped most of them to boost their attendance.

Newark's rates of chronic absenteeism for the 2015 - 16 school year show higher rates of absenteeism for high school students at 48 percent, with 38 percent of ninth graders and 59 percent of seniors chronically absent in Newark's district schools.