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Superintendent flags low graduation rate after Carolina Demography benchmarking; board seeks cohort counts
Summary
Superintendent Wesley Johnson presented Carolina Demography benchmarking showing Clinton City Schools compares favorably in several academic indicators but ranks low on four- and five-year graduation rates. Board members asked for raw cohort counts and discussed reinstating a focused dropout-prevention role to address persistently low graduation.
Superintendent Wesley Johnson used a Carolina Demography regional comparison during the Oct. 16 meeting to show Clinton City Schools's relative performance across multiple metrics and to highlight a pressing problem: the district's graduation rate remains well below peer districts in the same demography region.
Johnson told the board that, while the district ranks at or above regional means on several measures (notably EL progress and some tested-course rigor measures), "the 1 glaring area is graduation rate,"…
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