Sentences with phrase «reach ninth grade»

Interim school superintendent Robert Mahon said the district loses many of its students to charter schools before they reach ninth grade because of violence and high drop out rates.

Perhaps, most significant is the need to build students» reading and writing skills as many students reach ninth grade without the literacy skills to work independently at grade level.

Many of them never reached the ninth grade.

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The program targets middle schools, because, according to Citizen Schools interim California director Sylvia Kidder - Barry, «A lot of students drop out in ninth and tenth grade, and we can reach them best in middle school.»

It also delays the point at which Bay State students reach Algebra I — the gateway to higher math study — from eighth to ninth grade or later.

Warren Easton is the number one requested high school in the Orleans Parish School Board's OneApp, with ninth grade applications reaching almost 1,000 this year.