Graduation Rate Component for Career Tech Schools
This grade measures the percent of students who concentrate in career-technical education and graduate from high school within four or five years.
What is being graded?
- Four-Year Graduation Rate – How many students graduated in four years or less?
- Five-Year Graduation Rate – How many students graduated in five years or less?
Why is this important?
Almost all jobs require skills and education beyond a high school diploma. Measuring the five-year rate gives districts credit for helping students who just missed graduating on time finish their diplomas.
Questions to ask
- What are we doing to grow the number of students who graduate?
- What are the reasons students are not graduating?
- Are there certain subjects that are holding students back?
- Which districts, similar to ours, are doing better than we are? What are they doing?
How is the grade determined?
The Four-Year Graduation Rate includes only those students who earn diplomas within four years after entering ninth grade for the first time and concentrated in career-technical education.
The Five-Year Graduation Rate includes those students who graduate within five years after entering ninth grade for the first time and concentrated in career-technical education by the end of their fourth year.
A-F Rating
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The ranges for the graduation rate measures are different and partially prescribed in law. |
Four-Year Graduation Rate |
Five-Year Graduation Rate |
Score |
Letter Grade |
Score |
Letter Grade |
93% - 100% |
A |
95% - 100% |
A |
89% - 92.9% |
B |
90% - 94.9% |
B |
84% - 88.9% |
C |
85% - 89.9% |
C |
79% - 83.9% |
D |
80% - 84.9% |
D |
Less than 79% |
F |
Less than 80% |
F |
Last Modified: 9/13/2019 9:30:10 AM