Ambition Preparatory Charter School plans to offer ninth grade starting in 2027 and add one grade level each year thereafter.

Maly Than reads during her ninth grade Introduction to Literature class, with teacher Jay Clark, at Abraham Lincoln High School in Denver, CO, Friday, January 20, 2012.

SAN ANTONIO — Ninth grade, often the first year of high school, is a critical time when many students sink or swim while coping with new academic responsibilities and learning the oh-so ...

Ninth grade is considered a critical year because it largely determines whether students will graduate, according to a study last year by the University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School ...

D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson plans to overhaul the city’s approach to ninth-grade education, separating out students who have already failed the first year of high school from ...

The Ninth Grade Success Network, equipped with significant assistance from Philadelphia Academies to monitor ninth-graders’ data, offers coaching at least once a week, plus technical support and ...

I have the September shakes. I get this way whenever I meet someone who innocently smiles and proudly announces his or her son or daughter has just started the ninth grade. I want to say, “Wipe ...