ninth grade

Example Sentences

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“I want to start in ninth grade on varsity,” Trey Brown told his parents when he was a seventh-grade football player.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026

Hart has not suffered a league loss since a 1-0 defeat to Valencia on Feb. 3, 2022, when Costello and Rodriguez were in ninth grade.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2025

A ninth grade teacher said there’s an opening at the Macon Telegraph for a sports correspondent.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2024

The adolescents were followed from the end of ninth grade for a median of 11 years.

From Science Daily • May 23, 2024

I was twelve and going into the ninth grade of what would today be called a “gifted” program, while many of the other kids my age were just going into the seventh.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers