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Board questions college‑remediation report and asks for better tracking of students not immediately enrolling after graduation
Summary
Board members pressed district staff about college‑remediation and post‑graduation tracking after data showed 369 in the cohort but only 164 entering college directly that fall; staff said higher‑education tracking is limited and promised supplemental exit‑survey information and further follow‑up.
Board members focused extended discussion on a student college‑remediation report after pulling item 6I from the consent agenda for separate consideration.
A board member summarized the data point that prompted the pull: "it looks like the number of graduates in that cohort was 369 … and only a 164 of them were noted as graduates attending directly in the fall after high school." The member said the unaccounted roughly 200 students prompted questions about who those students were and what the district could do to support career and post‑secondary pathways.
Superintendent Turner Bridges and district staff told the board the district lacks comprehensive higher‑education longitudinal tracking for students who do not enroll immediately and that some of the information is available only from exit surveys. Bridges said staff have requested more detailed data and are working to assemble typical‑student reports and other analytics to help identify juniors and seniors not connected to advanced placement, concurrent enrollment, career tech, AP, or other pathways. Staff flagged a subset of 546 tenth‑through‑twelfth graders who met criteria of not being currently enrolled in AP/advanced/concurrent pathways and suggested that intentional touchpoints, expanded career exposure and business‑industry partnerships are needed to reduce that number.
Board members asked for follow‑up detail on the 200 students who were not accounted for in fall enrollment, and requested information on what career pathways or support the district could deploy to better serve students who do not matriculate directly to college. Staff said some data are subject to higher‑ed system limits but committed to sharing exit‑survey information and other available metrics with the board.
The board accepted the remediation report (an accreditation requirement) by motion after the discussion.
