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  2. Education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Elementary school: Kindergarten: 56 1st grade: 6–7 2nd grade: 7–8 3rd grade: 8–9 4th grade: 9–10 5th grade: 10–11 Middle school: 6th grade: 11–12 7th grade: 12–13 8th grade: 13–14 High school: 9th grade / Freshman: 14–15 10th grade / Sophomore: 15–16 11th grade / Junior: 16–17 12th grade / Senior: 17–18 Continuing ...

  3. Academic grading in the United States - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In the United States, academic grading commonly takes on the form of five, six or seven letter grades. Traditionally, the grades are A+, A, A−, B+, B, B−, C+, C, C−, D+, D, D− and F, with A+ being the highest and F being lowest. In some cases, grades can also be numerical. Numeric-to-letter-grade conversions generally vary from ...

  4. Educational attainment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A similar pattern is also seen in high school education, where, in 2016, 7.1% of males, but only 5.1% of females dropped out of high school. [14] In 2015/2016, 56 percent of college students were female and 44 percent were male.

  5. K–12 education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Achievement gaps in the United States - Wikipedia

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    By 12th grade, there was an 11-point gap between males and females. [11] On the 2002 National Writing Assessment, boys scored on average 17 points lower than girls in 4th grade. The average gap increased to 21 points by 8th grade and widened to 24 points by senior year in high school. [12]

  7. Secondary education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Secondary education is the last six or seven years of statutory formal education in the United States. It culminates with twelfth grade (age 17–18). Whether it begins with sixth grade (age 11–12) or seventh grade (age 12–13) varies by state and sometimes by school district. [1]

  8. Grade inflation - Wikipedia

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    A's accounted for 42.5% of grades in the humanities last year and 40.6% of grades in engineering, both down two percentage points compared to 2007–08. [22] In the period from fall 2006 through spring 2009, the most recent three-year period under the new grading policy, A's accounted for 40.1% of grades in undergraduate courses, down from 47.0 ...

  9. Grading in education - Wikipedia

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    Grades can be assigned as letters (usually A to F), as a range (for example, 1 to 6), as a percentage, or as a number out of a possible total (often out of 100). [1] In some countries, grades are averaged to create a grade point average (GPA). GPA is calculated by using the number of grade points a student earns in a given period of time. [2]