Georgiann has struggled with depression since the eighth grade and she was treated with medication.
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I'm in the eighth grade so, naturally, I chose Japanese as my second foreign language.
His single mother raised him until he left home in the eighth grade.
He first started experiencing symptoms of depression in the eighth grade, losing a great deal of weight and becoming despondent.
Daphne's classroom education may have ended after the eighth grade, but she clearly grasped the sociological dynamics of their village.
He was the only boy to carry a briefcase to school in the eighth grade, and in high school he joined the debate team.
The eighth grade dropout, ex- boxer and World War II fighter pilot trainer started his career in Las Vegas with a land purchase in 1962.
Kirk Kerkorian quit during the eighth grade to take up boxing.
"He doesn't have a pretentious or egocentric bone in his body, " said Steve Nelson, the head of The Calhoun School, a private institution Karp attended until the eighth grade.
For one thing, I'd been fifteen since winter and still hadn't passed the eighth-grade graduation exam.
They also have to stay in the Bartlett school through eighth grade and keep out of trouble with the law.
He wouldn't qualify for most jobs reserved for "backward" groups because he lacks the required eighth-grade schooling.
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The researchers identified about 2, 000 private Amish schools with total enrollment of roughly 55, 000 children, the oldest in eighth grade.
As a sign of just how mixed-up things are, directly across the street is another kindergarten-through-eighth grade school that is run by the state.
The kindergarten-through-eighth grade school, which has about 500 students, won a TerraCycle contest last year by collecting more than 54, 000 candy wrappers in a two-month period.
In eighth grade, the national reading score hasn't budged since 2002, but students in Atlanta, Houston and Los Angeles posted gains, while the other cities remained steady.
Rhode Island, for example, in 2009 passed regulations requiring that all health insurance policies in the state, beginning in 2010, be written at an eighth-grade level, which is the average reading level for state residents.
Since its inception, over 80% of eighth grade students from the original KIPP Academies have matriculated to college, compared with an average of 25% in low-income communities nationwide.
Galli grew up in middle-class Pittsburgh, the son of a doting mother and a hard-nosed father with an eighth-grade education who still works most days at the junkyard he has owned for 50 years.
On the very last night before seventh or eighth grade, I was still scrambling to get through Tuck Everlasting.
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The Zabuli Education Center teaches kindergarten through eighth grade.
In 1990, he was named Pennsylvania's Teacher of the Year for his role as an eighth-grade English teacher and took on leadership positions in education committees.
In eighth-grade math, nine of the 10 districts equaled or surpassed the average national improvement of seven points only Cleveland didn't.
Overall, 38 percent of Hispanic fourth-grade students were identified as English learners, as well as 20 percent of Hispanic eighth-grade students, according to the 2011 National Assessment of Education Progress math test.
Michelle Brooks, who finished eighth grade in June, vividly recalls the chaos of cops and helicopters as she, her family and a dozen neighbors fled to a couple of condos that belonged to her mother's employer.
Even most of the lowliest jobs in most state offices require an eighth-grade education, which many people lack.
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