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Updates on Graduation Rate Calculations and Reporting for 2010-11

This presentation outlines significant changes to the calculation of graduation rates mandated by the U.S. Department of Education. It introduces the four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate, which tracks students from their first year in high school to graduation within four years. The new calculations are designed for comparability across states and require disaggregated reporting. Adjustments to the cohort account for transfers, movements out of state, and other circumstances. The goal is improved accountability and reporting standards in education.

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Updates on Graduation Rate Calculations and Reporting for 2010-11

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  1. Graduation Rate ChangesUpdates for 2010-11 Office of Educational Accountability Department of public instruction

  2. This Presentation • Changes in calculation of graduation rate • Describe the new method: four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate • Reporting and accountability timelines

  3. New Graduation Rate • US Department of Education wants comparability in graduation rates across states. • USED requires all states to use a new graduation rate based on a “four-year adjusted cohort” and report disaggregated results for this cohort for AYP. • Federal law allows states to use an extended year adjusted cohort rate as well.

  4. Four-year Adjusted Cohort Rate Four-year Adjusted Cohort rate • Students are assigned a permanent cohort year based on grade level placement at the end of their first enrollment in a WI high school. • The cohort is adjusted for the following circumstances: • New transfers to a Wisconsin public school • Transfers to a non-public Wisconsin school • Moves out of state • Emigration to another country • Death of a student

  5. Four-year Adjusted Cohort Rate Four-year Adjusted Cohort rate • Students earning regular diplomas in four or fewer years are counted in the numerator. • “Regular Diploma” is defined in state statute: s.118.33(1) (a) and (d), Wis. Stats. • What does not count as a regular diploma? • Other completion credentials: HSED, GED, Certificate of Attendance or Completion • Students who do not earn a regular diploma in the cohort timeframe, including students who reach maximum age • Dropouts: students not transferred to another public school or whose whereabouts are unknown

  6. Comparing Rates What’s different? • New 4-year adjusted cohort formula (beginning 2010-11): # of students who graduate within four years with a regular diploma divided by # of students in the 4-yr adjusted cohort • Legacy rate formula (in use since 2003-04) is a snapshot: # of students who graduate with a regular diploma divided by # of students expected to graduate

  7. New Graduation Rates

  8. Grad Rates: Reporting and AYP Beginning in Spring 2011, WI will report two rates: *Guidance from USED, expected in fall 2011, may allow use of an additional, extended rate for AYP.

  9. Further Information Graduation Webpage: http://dpi.wi.gov/graduation/index.html Additional Graduation Information: www.dpi.wi.gov/lbstat/eseagrad.html www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/guid/hsgrguidance.pdf Office of Educational Accountability www.dpi.wi.gov/oea

  10. Questions Office of Educational Accountability Department of Public Instruction oeamail@dpi.wi.gov

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