The numbers are even more stark for high school students: in the 1990s, one of every 20 high school students smoked 10 or more cigarettes a day while today, only one out of 71 students smoke at that rate.
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But by the time these students reach high school in the US, they feel little connection to school and struggle with performance.
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In the 2007--08 year 57% of the students enrolled were in the top quarter of their high school class, up from 54% the year before.
One, written into Texas law, requires the school to accept the students from the top 10% of each high school in the state.
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Olbrich and his colleagues ran several support groups after the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999, still the deadliest event at an American high school, in which 12 students and a teacher died.
The march by Chardon High School students, walking arm-in-arm in the damp cold from the school to the town square, was an emotional highlight during the day's commemoration.
Of Camden's 26 schools, 23 fall in the bottom 5% statewide in performance measures, and less than half of its students graduate high school in four years, according to the state.
Passed by the legislature in 1997, with the enthusiastic support of Governor George W. Bush, the law provides that all Texas students graduating in the top 10% of their high school classes automatically qualify to enter the University of Texas (or any other state college).
And we also have the Elizabeth Seton High School students in Maryland.
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Recent budget issues have raised the spectre of fare hikes, but Trimet provides free transit to all high school students in the Portland Public School District, while other students receive a reduced-fare Youth Pass.
In the offending column, I was not trying to describe the individual lives of the estimated 1.4 million undocumented high school and college students in the United States.
Sue Graves, a safety coordinator for the Lincoln County School District, told lawmakers that high school students in her district take semester-long classes that teach CPR and other survival techniques in the wake of a giant earthquake.
The program provides underprivileged students in elementary through high school free tutoring, access to an afterschool center and scholarships.
Who knows, it may be conceivable that in the not so distant future high school students would only come to school when they needed to be in a seminar or for collaboration meetings.
To give a feel for the students that this Colorado public high school serves, of the 176 students graduating, 12 were over 21 years in age, 33 were parents, and a few were serving in the military.
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As noted above, U.S. 4th graders do fairly well in mathematics and science, but by the time they graduate from high school, U.S. students are nowhere near being "first in the world" in either subject.
The premises will serve the high school students who have since 2008 been using rooms in the primary school for want of a building.
As the Washington Post reported in September, 57% of high school students who take the SATs do not score well enough to be able to handle college.
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The new plan alters the ratios so that the top 9% of students from each high school would be guaranteed a spot, as well as students who rank in the top 9% of the state as a whole.
In the meantime, he is able to join sponsors and the producers of "42" in taking students from Abraham Lincoln High School, in Brooklyn's coastal Coney Island neighborhood to a screening of the movie on the 66rd anniversary of the day Robinson broke major league baseball's color barrier.
The pair, students at Eirias High School in Colwyn Bay, say they were surprised to do so well because each found the exams harder than expected.
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This may make sense as a way to judge a state (although there may be legitimate questions if it makes sense when moving to a competency-based learning system and away from one based on time), but it creates some problems for judging schools to where students are transferring in the midst of their high school experience.
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One of the vice principals at Cavelier-De LaSalle High School in Montreal overheard two students speaking between classes shortly after the incident, school board representative Jean-Michel Nahas said.
Cheating rates rise through middle school and by high school, 51% of students admit to cheating on a test in the past year, and 74% say they have copied another student's homework, according to a 2012 survey of 23, 000 high-school students by the Josephson Institute of Ethics, in Los Angeles, a nonprofit character-education organization.
The family hoped to be able to enroll Ryohei in Shiba Junior High School, a springboard for students into the even more sought-after Tokyo University.
One of the most pressing problems in our education system today is the high number of students who do not complete high school.
Critics have accused community leaders of trying to paper over rampant misconduct by players of the highly regarded Steubenville High School football team and have suggested that other students took part in the assaults or failed to do enough stop them.
The students from St Ninian's High school in Douglas have teamed up with Beach Buddies, formed in 2006.
As the advanced-placement economics students file into Room 339 at Stuyvesant High School in Lower Manhattan, Clarissa Bushman displays a graph on the overhead projector.
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