San Francisco’s Lowell High School, one of the top-performing public schools on the West Coast, has reported a spike in failing grades among students after replacing its academics-based admissions system with a lottery. Lowell used to be the only school in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) where admissions were determined by a student’s…

BERLIN—A school employee was seriously wounded by an assailant wielding a crossbow in an attack Thursday at a high school in the northern German city of Bremerhaven and a suspect was detained, investigators said. Police said they were alerted at 9:15 a.m. to someone having entered the Lloyd High School in the port city and…

A new study has found evidence of inflation in high school GPAs between 2010 and 2021, suggesting that while American high school seniors are graduating with better grades, they also know less than the seniors of a decade ago. The study was conducted by ACT, the nonprofit organization that administers the ACT college admissions tests….

Many homeschooling parents are not only in the process of wrapping up their family’s homeschooling year, if they follow a traditional school year schedule, but also preparing for next year’s school year. The most frightened of them—besides perhaps those preparing for their first homeschooling year—are very likely those about to begin the high school years….

If he can successfully cheat his way through college, Jim plans to become a doctor. Jim, who chose to be anonymous to avoid academic consequences, attends a major university in Canada with about 26,000 undergraduate students. He says that he’s always cheated in school, but that when he went to university, his cheating rose to…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday signed into law a bill that makes it a graduation requirement for high school students to complete a course on financial literacy. Under Senate Bill 1054 (pdf), which gained unanimous approval in Florida’s state Legislature, all public school students entering 9th grade in the 2023-2024 school year and thereafter…

SAN DIEGO—A Lincoln High School student who brought a ghost gun onto the campus locked himself in an administrative room on March 15 after being confronted by campus police and refused to surrender for more than an hour, prompting a SWAT standoff that ended in his arrest. The gun scare at the secondary school in…

DES MOINES, Iowa—Authorities arrested six teenagers accused of shooting into a group that had gathered outside an Iowa high school, killing a 15-year-old boy and seriously wounding two teenage girls, police said Tuesday. The suspects are each charged with first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder in the Monday afternoon shooting on the grounds…

News Analysis The fight outside North High School in Denver was about to turn more violent as one girl wrapped a bike chain around her fist to strike the other. Just before the attacker used the weapon, school staff arrived and restrained her, ending the fight but not the story. Most high schools would have…

Two Alabama parents who homeschooled their 10 children, with all of them graduating high school at the mere age of 12—are now rocketing forward in their respective areas of interest. High school sweethearts Kip and Mona Lisa Harding, both 53, have raised their kids to believe that “if it’s their calling, God will help them…