Specific Requirements
Progress toward reducing dropout rates, including the one-year dropout rate listed in the California Basic Educational Data System (CBEDS) or any successor data system for the school site, over the most recent three-year period, and the graduation rate, as defined by the State Board of Education, over the most recent three-year period.
Education Code Section 33126 (b)(2)
Public Law 107-110 Section 1111 (h)(1)(C)(vi)
Public Law 107-110 Section 1111 (h)(2)(B)
Definitions
For the most recent three-year period for which data is available, the one-year dropout rate pursuant to the following CBEDS formula:
(grades 9-12 dropouts) divided by (grades 9-12 enrollment) x 100
Until statewide student-level longitudinal data are available, data reported regarding graduation rates will be reported in accordance with the formula negotiated with and approved by the U.S. Department of Education pursuant to No Child Left Behind (NCLB). This formula, which represents a four-year high school completion rate, is calculated by dividing the number of high school graduates by the sum of dropouts for grades 9 through 12, respectively, in consecutive years, plus the number of high school graduates. The rate incorporates four years of data and thus is an estimated cohort rate. Put simply, this rate asks, "Of those students who have left school, what proportion have done so as graduates?" If a hypothetical graduating class began as ninth graders in Year 1, this four-year "graduation" rate would look like the following:
(High school graduates Year 4) divided by
{dropouts (grade 9 Year 1 + grade 10 Year 2 + grade 11 Year 3
+ grade 12 Year 4) + high school graduates Year 4}
For comparison purposes, data are also provided at the district and state levels.
Guidelines and Data Sources
Dropout rate data are reported from CBEDS. Graduation rate data are reported from the Adequate Yearly Progress Report.
State certification/release dates for dropout data occur too late for inclusion of 2006-07 data with other data from that year. Therefore, 2005-06 data are used for report cards prepared during 2007-08. Since these data are older than those of other elements of the report, a brief narrative to explain resulting anomalies may be added, if appropriate.
A dropout report may be generated at DataQuest [http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/]. A graduation rate report may be generated at AYP Reports [http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/ac/ay/aypreports.asp].
Data provided by the California Department of Education (CDE).
