I asked our statistics guru for the District, Dr. Lake, to provide me with a snapshot of the three-year graduation rates of recent ISD 709 classes. We can keep track of them by year three years running and some small percentage of students finish up in their fourth year or fifth year following the year they entered ninth grade. That’s one or two years after they were originally scheduled to graduate.
This chart shows that the 9th graders in the 05-06, 06-07 and 07-08 school years did about the same. But the students who entered ninth grade in 2009 and who were scheduled to graduate three years later in 2012 took a hit. 3% to 4% fewer of them graduated than the ninth graders who preceded them. It looks like the numbers are rebounding for the kids who entered ninth grade in 2009 (the final single blue column on this chart).
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