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Prepared by Joshua Jackson What is the difference between eighth grade and ninth grade? First of all, one grade is higher and one grade is lower than the other. Well, the difference is in eighth grade you’re in middle school, and in ninth grade you’re in high school. In the eighth grade it is your […]

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