ninth grade

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ninth grade

n
(Education) (in the US)the ninth year of school, usually the first year of high school
ˌninth-ˈgrader n
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ZAMBOANGA CITY-A ninth-grader from Pasonanca National High School was allegedly beaten by a teacher on the first day of school.
The ninth-grader, identified as Rizwan, was arrested by the Dolphin Force from the city's Sundar area.
Russia's Investigative Committee said the ninth-grader entered a classroom during a lesson on Friday and attacked seventh-graders and their teacher.
Russia's Investigative Committee said the attacker, a ninth-grader, attacked a group of seventh-grade students with an axe at a school just outside the Siberian city of Ulan-Ude, then set the room ablaze.
GUJRANWALA -- The teacher of a private school allegedly fractured an arm of a ninth-grader over a petty issue here in Rahwali the other day.
"If a ninth-grader gets an F, he's 90 percent more likely to get a second F," she said.
"Everyone thought it was a joke at first," ninth-grader Ashlyn Lundholm told the Stillwater NewsPress.
Susan Schultz, an Austin attorney and parent of a ninth-grader in Austin ISD, is a founding member of Texans Advocating for Meaningful Student Assessment.
Sean, a 5-foot-9-inch guard and the only ninth-grader on the team, played key reserve minutes during the middle of the season, providing the Spartans with good ball handling and tough defense.
It can be as easy as providing each ninth-grader with bell schedules and a map to help them better understand where they need to go and when, or handing out sample packets of ninth-grade tests and homework assignments to help answer questions about the level of difficulty of the classes in high school (Morgan & Hertzog, 2001).
Caroline Meyer, 14, says that "even if the price went up, people would continue to buy soda." But the ninth-grader from Cincinnati, Ohio, supports the tax, saying that it would "raise the necessary money to pay for health care, something everyone could benefit from."
The winner of the $500 high school prize was Stephen Ferraro, a ninth-grader at Ft.