Sentences with phrase «until eighth grade»

Dr. Yu - Tin Lee was born in Taiwan, where she lived until the eighth grade when her family moved to the US.

In Nashville, NACS opened this fall and currently serves fifth - graders with a plan to add a grade each year until the eighth grade.

Ms. Potter also said that the network has made trade - offs, including not offering foreign languages until eighth grade, in order to devote more time to math, English and science, the only subjects in which all elementary and middle school students take state tests.

I wasn't diagnosed with major depression (one of many types of the disease) until eighth grade, but the earliest signs of the illness surfaced when I was five.

Not exact matches

Candace knew basketball, but she didn't fall in love with it until her dad started coaching her on an AAU team in eighth grade.

The tests will still be given to students in third through eighth grade this spring, but they won't count on either the students» or the teachers» records until at least 2020.

We can say everything we want about how much [credibility] we should invest in a one - time test, but some of the most poignant discussions I've had are with parents who didn't find out until their child was in the seventh or eighth grade that she or he was way behind — not reading up to par, not doing math up to par, and not prepared to take on high - school - level work.

Until recently, that is, when, along with my eighth - grade students, I participated in the annual career - interest survey provided by the local secondary school guidance department.

Teachers rely heavily on the bond that evolves between them and their students as they move together from the first grade until the students graduate from eighth grade.

After fifth grade, McNeely recalls sailing free until she hit eighth grade, and Mr. Robinson became assistant principal of the K - 12 school she attended.

School leader Jeremy Esposito plans to add a grade each year until he has 340 fifth - through eighth - graders.

Students in fourth, eighth and 10th grades will continue to take the WKCE for science and social studies until new standards in those subjects are adopted and new tests are developed, which could be a few years away, according to Department of Public Instruction spokesman John Johnson.

We are adding a grade each year until we are a K - 5 school, at which point we will merge with The Academy's existing middle school (currently in its eighth year) to be a fully integrated K - 8 program.

The test is given in the fall to students in third through eighth grades and to sophomores, but results don't come back until spring.

Peter began his career as a teacher at Lombard Middle School in Baltimore, where he taught eighth grade Social Studies from 1993 until 1998.

To maintain student cohesion, if a child loses his or her «low - income» status, he or she will maintain the scholarship until completing the eighth or twelfth grade.

While wealthy parents begin learning about the specifics of the NYC process from the moment their child comes of school age, most low - income families do not begin learning about the process until their child is in seventh or eighth grade.

It really wasn't very important which grade level you were in until you started to approach that final, eighth grade year.