A basic education program aims at bringing all to at least the ninth-grade level.

California law requires that these men and women be given remedial education in prison until they can read at a ninth-grade level.

Basic Education is for adults with reading and mathematics below ninth-grade levels.

Contrast this with an examination some Japanese students take at about our ninth-grade level.

He has a joy for math and is on a ninth-grade level.

Yet by some estimates, as much as 65 percent of the American work force reads below ninth-grade level.

At age 7, my son was tested and found to read at a ninth-grade level.

She'd progressed well beyond the ninth-grade level, but not far enough to be scary.

Their reading skills were, on average, roughly equivalent to the ninth-grade level in Northern cities.

Business leaders were concerned that the test was set at a ninth-grade level and urged the state to increase its difficulty even further.