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Board hears plan to recover after 8-point graduation dip; targets 54 off-track seniors
Summary
Superintendent and district leaders presented a written recovery plan after the high school graduation rate fell from 92.6% to 84.4%, including targeted mentoring for about 54 off-track seniors, expanded credit-recovery hours, weekly monitoring and a proposed July 17 summer graduation.
The Grandview School District presented a written plan to address an 8-percentage-point drop in its high school graduation rate, with district leaders saying they will identify and support roughly 54 seniors who are currently off track to graduate.
In a superintendent update, the Director (speaker 8) said the district recorded a drop from 92.6% in 2023–24 to 84.4% this year and that roughly 54 seniors lack one or two credits. “We have about 54 students who are off track right now, and we wanna shrink that number,” the Director said, explaining steps to reduce the number to fewer than 10 by June.
The written plan includes three immediate steps: identifying seniors with missing credits and assigning staff mentors within weeks; expanding credit-recovery opportunities (in-person and online through the Apex system) and extending Apex lab hours to 6:30 PM daily; and instituting biweekly graduation-progress monitoring among counselors and key stakeholders. The Director told the board the district will recruit students into tutoring and outreach programs and conduct targeted family and home-contact work to boost attendance and engagement.
District staff also reported a likely data-transfer issue after switching from Skyward to a new student information system that omitted about 10–11 students who completed summer coursework; the district plans an "August reset" and additional record reconciliation to ensure summer completers are counted. The Director said staff will involve registrars, counselors and administrators in the cleanup.
As a retention incentive, the district proposed a summer graduation ceremony on July 17 for students who complete summer learning and earn the missing credits. Board members and administrators emphasized the plan is adaptive and that staff will adjust interventions as needed.
The board did not take final action to adopt additional policies at the meeting; the recovery plan was presented as the district’s current approach and will be monitored through June with further follow-up in August.
