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Sophomore class artwork, from East Texas State Normal College's 1920 Locust yearbook. In the United States, a sophomore (/ ˈ s ɑː f m ɔːr / or / ˈ s ɒ f ə m ɔːr /) [1] [2] is a person in the second year at an educational institution; usually at a secondary school or at the college and university level, but also in other forms of post-secondary educational institutions.
At the secondary school level ("high school"), the 9th through 12th grades are also known respectively as freshman (or "first-year"), sophomore, junior, and senior. At the postsecondary or "undergraduate" level (college or university), the same four terms are reused to describe a student's college years, but numbered grades are not used at the ...
High school (occasionally senior high school) includes grades 9 through 12. Students in these grades are commonly referred to as freshmen (grade 9), sophomores (grade 10), juniors (grade 11), and seniors (grade 12). At the high school level, students generally take a broad variety of classes without specializing in any particular subject.
The sophomore slump is one of the most common hurdles that high school students face. Luckily, the academic dip that many 10th graders experience is avoidable and repairable.
The name high school is applied in other countries, but no universal generalization can be made as to the age range, financial status, or ability level of the pupils accepted. In North America, most high schools include grades 9 through 12. Students attend them following graduation from middle school (often alternatively called junior high ...
Generally, there are three stages: elementary school (grades K/1–2/3/4/5/6), intermediate school (3/4–5/6), middle school / junior high school (grades 5/6/7–8/9), and high school / senior high school (grades 9/10–12). [108] [dead link ] There is variability in the exact arrangement of grades by state, as the following table indicates ...
North Quincy High School sophomore Anna Li stands in front of her poster board at the Region V Science and Engineering Fair. Nicole Kymissis, Li’s ninth grade biology teacher, helped students ...
Despite a decade of grade inflation, grades fell slightly in 2021-22. High school grades rose at the fastest rates in mathematics and science, and at a slower rate in English and social studies ...