Philadelphia School District leaders have long said they want to improve the system’s four-year graduation rate — currently at 81%. To do that, they are pouring resources into a “Ninth Grade Success ...

Geneva Sloan, the district’s director of postsecondary readiness and ninth-grade point person, said boosting the graduation rate is about more than numbers. “It helps us to repair our city ...

PHILADELPHIA — Brooklyn Jamison was a handful in her ninth-grade year at Mastbaum High School. “I was fighting, getting into drama that I shouldn’t have,” she said. “I picked the wrong ...

The Grayson ninth-grade boys basketball team recently won the Gwinnett County championship. Members of the Rams’ title team are C.J. Crumpler, Bleu Lewis, Caleb Clardy, Jaryn Williams ...

Leaders at the Philadelphia School District and long strived to strived to improve its four-year graduation rate and have launched a new initiative to do it, writes Kristen A. Graham for The ...

PHILADELPHIA — Brooklyn Jamison was a handful in her ninth-grade year at Mastbaum High School. “I was fighting, getting into drama that I shouldn’t have,” she said. “I picked the wrong friend group, ...

displayed ninth-grade on-track rates at 83.5% and regular attendance rates for those two grades at 75.3% and 69.5%, respectively. The kicker? The class of 2019 actually posted a lower graduation ...

Grayson won the Gwinnett County ninth-grade championship in girls basketball with a 53-32 victory over Archer on Saturday. The Rams, who beat Brookwood in the semifinals, had 10 players score in ...

Winnebago Lutheran Academy turns 100 this year after growing from a single ninth-grade class to a student ... Zimmerman made a comment in her graduation speech that became local history.