And in some places, all students take Algebra 1 in ninth grade. In 2014, San Francisco schools stopped offering accelerated middle school math classes and made Algebra 1 a ninth-grade math ...

In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally been separated into more than five math courses ...

When students take Algebra 1 matters. If high schoolers don’t pass the course by 9th grade, they’re unlikely to reach college-preparatory math in high school. There are too many courses to get ...