Students are getting old in the ninth grade ... high school freshman is 14 years old. In all, 47 percent of ninth-graders – nearly half the class – were at least one year over age.

See the accompanying chart, “The 9th Grade ‘Bulge’ Over 30 Years ... and U.S. Census Bureau data on the percentages of school-age children migrating out of states. Those broad statistical ...

Freshman year grade point average ... which are taken in 9th and 10th grades, respectively. The report found that freshman GPA was nearly twice as predictive of high school graduation as ...