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Anchorage board reviews ‘on-track’ graduation metric; administration cites 95% correlation between ninth-grade on-track status and four-year graduation
Summary
Anchorage School District leaders told the school board on Sept. 16 that a credit-based "on-track" metric for grades 9–11 correlates strongly with four-year graduation and is being monitored alongside academic and career-readiness measures to guide targeted supports.
At its Sept. 16 meeting the Anchorage School Board held a goal-monitoring discussion focused on the College, Career and Life (CCL) goal and interim Goal 3.1, which targets increases in the percent of students considered "on track" to graduate in grades 9–11.
The board reviewed the interim goal language: the district aims to increase the percent of students graduating college, career and life ready (measured by four-year graduation rates) from 81% in 2023 to 90% in 2028, and to increase the percent of students in grades 9–11 who are on track from 66.6% in June 2023 to 90% in June 2028. Administration defined "on track" as credits earned by the end of ninth grade (5.5 credits), tenth grade (11 credits) and eleventh grade (16.5 credits).
Administration said the district selected the on-track metric based on national…
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