Sentence examples for tenth of students from inspiring English sources

The approach has been popular among students here, who tend to have children and busy lives (about a tenth of students at Sinclair are displaced workers).

"Around a tenth of students in higher education have a disability and they probably did not have a good experience at school in PE but they can try different sports at university with three years to develop them".

Less than one-tenth of students attend private schools.

Its size and diversity — whites are a minority (4 percent), Muslims are the religious plurality (about 30 percent) and one-tenth of students are learning English — made it an ideal laboratory to test how the standards might work in the city, officials said.

About a third of students are minorities.

Only around one-fifth of students progress to high school.

One-third of students were awarded firsts or 2 1s in 1970.

A third of students drop out in their first year at university.

More than a fifth of students dropped out of high school before graduating.

Nearly a third of students are in default, and the rate is rising.

Yet one-third of students today transfer from one college to another before earning a degree.