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Superintendent cites strong graduation and completer rates as board probes role of policy changes
Summary
Superintendent Kim reported a 90.4% four-year graduation rate and a 96.1% four-year completer rate for 2023–24; board members debated whether policy changes and pandemic-era adjustments to essential-skill requirements explain improvements.
Superintendent Kim told the board the district's 2023–24 four-year graduation rate was 90.4% and that the four-year completer rate was 96.1%, with a five-year graduation rate of 92.2% and a dropout rate at 1.6%.
Kim said the district's ninth-grade on-track rate is high and that supports graduation outcomes. "The 23, 24, 4 year graduation rate is 90.4 percent," Kim said, and highlighted the district's 4‑ and 5‑year completer rates and low dropout rate as indicators of system resilience after a difficult budget year.
A board member (speaker 7) questioned whether statewide policy changes such as Senate Bill 744 and pandemic adjustments to essential skills account for improved statewide graduation rates, saying policy changes may have lowered academic expectations rather than reflecting improved achievement. Kim and others replied that some pandemic-era removal of essential-skill testing and opt-outs affect comparability of metrics and that local interventions (9th-grade support, counseling, credit recovery) and SIA/Measure 98 funding are contributing to the district's performance.
