Sentences with phrase «percent by the fifth grade»

By second grade, 35 percent will drop out; that number jumps to 65 percent by the fifth grade.

Not exact matches

This age is a critical juncture in a child's life, as kids typically decrease their activity levels by 50 percent between fifth and sixth grades, said Rod Dishman, the study's lead author and a professor of kinesiology in the UGA College of Education.

In counties that received an average Smart Start funding allocation, a child's chance of being retained by fifth grade declined by 13 percent.

The researchers studied approximately 100,000 black students who enrolled in third grade in North Carolina's public schools between 2001 and 2005 and found that the risk of dropping out for black students decreased by 29 percent if they had at least one black teacher in third through fifth grades.

For this demographic, having at least one black teacher from third through fifth grade reduced the likelihood of later dropping out of school by 39 percent.

After using DreamBox for just one year, Kerrick Elementary's third -, fourth -, and fifth - grade students showed tremendous gains on their statewide exams in May, with 69 percent improving by one performance level.

Twenty - three percent of second -, third -, fourth -, and fifth - graders were doing math at grade level in September, and by November, that rate had risen to 44 percent.

Sixty - nine percent of United States public school students in fifth through eighth grade are taught mathematics by a teacher without a degree or certificate in mathematics.