GOAL 1: ENSURE SUCCESS FOR EVERY STUDENT
MILESTONE 6: All schools will meet or exceed the state’s graduation requirements.
DATA POINT: Graduation Rates
OVERVIEW
High school graduation rates are an important performance measure and are at least as important as test scores to assess the performance of our school system. The Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) has included high school graduation rate as a component of Adequate Yearly Progress. The Maryland State Board of Education has said that by 2014, all high schools, school systems and the state should reach a graduation rate of 90 percent. The standard applies to all students, not individual groups of students. However, the graduation rate of individual groups of students can be a factor in determining some instances of AYP.
The graduation rate is calculated by MSDE and is the percentage of students who entered grade 9 and received a Maryland diploma four years later. This is an estimated cohort group. It is calculated by dividing the number of high school graduates by the sum of students in that class who dropped out in each of the previous four years plus the number of high school graduates.
Graduates
Dropouts in that class over four years + Graduates |
= Graduation Rate |
Complete Report(s)
2007 Maryland Report Card: Montgomery County Graduation Rate, Grade 12