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9th Grade Orientation September 1, 2021 from 8:30am-10:30am
9th Grade Year Counts
9th Grade Year Counts
Start earning credits in your 9th grade year to stay on track to graduation.
At Madison, on-track means earning credits in your CORE classes like history, english, math, and physics.
University of Chicago Research
University of Chicago Research
Even though we are doing distance learning 9th grade still counts as much as ever: being on-track, keeping your GPA high and attending school every day.
UChiToThrough_IssueBrief_Attendance_v1.pdfAttendance
Nearly 90% of freshmen who miss less than 1 week of school per semester GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL regardless of their 8th grade test scores.
UChiToThrough_IssueBrief_FreshmanOnTrack_v1.pdfOn Track
An on-track 9th grader is 4x more likely to graduate on time than an off-track 9th grader.
UChiToThrough_IssueBrief_Grades_v1.pdfCredits
Course performance during freshman year of high school is more predictive of whether a student will graduate from high school than race, ethnicity, poverty level, and prior test scores combined.
UChiToThrough_IssueBrief_CollegeChoice v1.pdfCollege Choice
Research has consistently shown that students with a 3.0 GPA (or higher) in high school are far more likely to succeed in and graduate from college, and 9th grade is the best time to set that strong GPA for the rest of your high school career.
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