North Carolina has the 12th highest dropout rate, a new report says.
The Editorial Projects in Education Research Center report found that 67 percent of state public school students graduated from high school with a regular diploma in 2005 — below the national average of 70.6 percent.
Only Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Delaware, Georgia, the District of Columbia, South Carolina, Louisiana, New Mexico and Nevada had higher dropout rates based on the report's calculations.
The rate was calculated using the Cumulative Promotion Index, which tracks whether a student graduates from ninth, tenth, 11th and 12th grades.
For its own calculation of dropout rates under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, North Carolina uses the Cohort Rate, or the percent of students from an entering ninth grade class graduate within four years. Sixteen other states use a similar formula.
Under that calculation, the class of 2005 had a 95 percent graduation rate. The 28-point difference with the Cumulative Promotion Index was the second-largest gap in state-reported rates versus the number calculated by the research center.
Update: Agency say researchers misstated the state's own calculated graduation rate.
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The source for that 95% number
March 17, 2011 - 12:00pm — dave36The NC DPI Consolidated Annual Report on School Crime and Violence, Suspensions and Expulsions (including Alternative Learning Program Enrollments), and Dropout Events and Rate (the “Consolidated Report”), p. 118, gives the average NC dropout rate for 2009-2010 as 3.75%. Here it is on the DPI web site:
http://dpi.state.nc.us/docs/research/discipline/reports/consolidated/2009-10/consolidated-report.pdf
http://www.wral.com/asset/news/education/2011/03/03/9210075/2009-10_NC_school_crime_dropout_report.pdf
Note: The DPI’s Consolidated Report has two different “page 118”s. One is the page you get when you enter 118 as the page number in Adobe Reader. The other is the page number at the bottom of the page in the document. But, by wonderful coincidence, the 3.75% dropout rate claim appears on both page 118’s.
Bonus points for anyone who can figure out how the educrats manage to compute a 3.75% dropout rate when 33% of 9th grade enrollees fail to graduate from the 12th grade.
(Note: these same educrats have statistics to prove that their regular public schools are just as good as private and charter schools... to which I reply, "Luke 16:10")
Dave Burton
www.burtonsys.com/email/
Re: Report: N.C. dropout rate 12th worst
June 18, 2008 - 8:19am — dahedgehogWhat's the source for that 95% number? I think you need to double-check your work there: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/newsroom/news/2007-08/20070906-01
State Superintendent June Atkinson highlighted the cohort graduation rate - a measure that moved up in 2007. "In 2007, 69.4 percent of the students who entered ninth grade in the fall of 2003 graduated from high school in four years or less," Atkinson said.
Re: Report: N.C. dropout rate 12th worst
June 17, 2008 - 4:13pm — uncgopGiven this information, all of DPI should be ousted and we should start from scratch instead of letting people like Howard Lee continue to waste our taxpaying dollars. It is time for real change in education, and yes that means starting over with No Child Left Behind on the federal level. Education should be the priority of the state and the state should adminster on all levels, but we must have capable people to do that and the current bunch is not it.