<p>I don’t think they’re very common anymore, but I could be wrong. Nowadays 9th graders are freshman, 10th - sophomores, etc. Does anyone know what students were called at 10-12 high schools?</p>
<p>My school district is 10-12 in high school… 10 is sophomore, 11 is junior, 12 is senior. </p>
<p>They are called the same as any other schools… It’s not like they are completely different worlds or anything like that.</p>
<p>I didn’t think they were completely different, I was just curious about the terms because I thought that it would start with “freshman”.</p>
<p>Collegekid100, I’ve lived in the East my whole life and never heard that. Is that a private school convention perhaps??</p>
<p>My private school in New England didn’t use that, either.</p>
<p>When I went to high school in NYC in prehistoric times - the junior high system went from grades 7-9 so high school for 99% of public school kids was grades 10-12. But a small percentage of kids came in from parochial schools after grade 8. So we still had a tiny ninth grade and they were the freshman. Everyone else came into high school as a sophomore.</p>
<p>My kids school use form, east coast, private school.</p>
<p>I went to a high school that was 10-12. Tenth graders were sophomores, even though 9th graders (who were located at the junior highs) were not referred to as freshmen.</p>
<p>In this system, courses taken in 9th grade, even though they were not taken at the high school, appear on the student’s high school transcript. Students should be aware of this. Ninth grade counts, no matter where you are when you are enrolled in that grade.</p>
<p>Our whole family is from public school backgrounds. Forms are what you fill out when you want something from the government.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of it being called a form. I guess 9th grade is technically freshman year however we don’t really refer to them as that as it’s part of junior high. The courses takein in 9th grade are part of your transcript though. But like I said the years after that are all standard.</p>
<p>We’ve got a 10-12 HS campus here - 9th is on a separate campus (size issues). The 10th graders are called sophomores.</p>
<p>Our kids spent some time in schools in the UK. 2nd form was roughly 3rd grade. I never could figure it out but sixth formers were somehow the equivalent of 9th grade, I think.</p>
<p>We have high schools with grades 10-12 in our district.
Junior highs have grades 8-9, and middle schools have 6-7.
9th graders are “9th graders,” but 10th graders are called sophomores.</p>
<p>Years ago I taught in a British (colonial) system in Africa. grades 1-7 were called “Standards.” Students had to pass the “Standard 7 Exam” to continue their education. Many students left school at that point. </p>
<p>Those who passed entered Form 1 (roughly 8th grade) or junior secondary school. After Form 3 (10th grade), students took the JC (junior certificate)exam and if they passed, could continue to Forms 4 and 5 at a senior secondary school–then they would take O-Level exams. (They had no “A Levels”–they could enter college after O-Levels).</p>