ninth grade
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Dyslexic, Harry dropped out of school in the ninth grade, joined the Navy, and served two weeks’ military imprisonment before returning to New York City to work odd jobs and scrape by.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Mock, who reread The Lord of the Rings every year from fourth grade through ninth grade, has simpler dreams: “a hobbit hole out in the countryside, and as little as possible.”
From Slate ● May 28, 2026
Because most students don’t start at St. Benedict’s until the ninth grade, many are already underperforming academically by the time they join the school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
But then I remembered I did dance to the Six Fat Dutchmen in the ninth grade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2025
Daddy enrolled Wendell in the ninth grade class at Carver High School, where he worked, even though it lay outside our school zone.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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