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Board hears graduation-rate trends; district points to alternative programs and ninth-grade support
Summary
Teaching-and-learning staff reviewed four- and five-year graduation rates, noting the district's rate is close to the state average and that alternative learning programs and late, credit-deficient transfers affect the district figure; staff described strategies including Center for High School Success for freshman on-track work.
Travis, on behalf of the district’s teaching and learning team, presented an overview of Battle Ground School District graduation rates and the measures the district is using to improve on-time graduation.
“Graduation rate is based on a cohort, so a group of students who start their ninth grade year together,” Travis said, summarizing the methodology used by the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. He noted the district also tracks five-year rates, which include students who graduate within five years of the cohort start.
The presentation compared district and state rates and showed that the district’s 4-year graduation rate has historically been slightly below the state average; in the most recent year the district’s rate was about one percentage point lower than the statewide rate of about 82.8 percent. Travis emphasized the district’s highest-ever graduation rate occurred in…
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