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Page Academy reports record graduation rate; district emphasizes dropout-prevention efforts
Summary
Page Academy leaders told the board that 40 of 42 eligible students met graduation requirements last year and outlined strategies (post-secondary points, internships, partnerships, life-skills Fridays) aimed at re-engaging near-completers and preventing dropouts.
Page Academy Principal Jay Rotert reported to the board that 40 of 42 eligible students met graduation requirements last year, the largest graduating class in the program's history, and described initiatives intended to keep students on track to graduate.
"40 out of our 42 eligible students to graduate met the requirements to graduate," Rotert said, and he highlighted that more students earned post-secondary points and college-and-career-readiness diplomas than in prior years. Rotert outlined partnerships (including the ECEC and Family and Children Services), expanded career-technical pathways, and use of alternative-credit options and proficiency packets to help students recover credits.
Rotert explained the program is constrained by student-teacher ratio limits (15:1) and a maximum enrollment that caps the program size. He described a personalized intake process for every enrolling family and said the program will proactively contact students within three credits of graduation to try to bring them back and finish within about a quarter or two. The board praised the program's outcomes and the district said it will continue to support Page Academy through staffing and community partnerships.
