Presentation to the State Board of Education February 19, 2015

Number of cohort members who earned a regular high school diploma through September Number of first-time 9 th graders in the fall of 2010 (starting cohort) plus students who transfer in, minus students who transfer out, emigrate, or are deceased during school years , , ,

CohortGraduatesGraduation Rate All Students % American Indian % African American % Asian % Hawaiian< % White % Hispanic % Multi-Racial % English Language Learners % Students with Disabilities % Low Income % Class of 2014

2014 ESEA Target Results All Students 83.8%84.4% * American Indian 83.4%89.5%* African American 79.4%80.1%* Asian American 92.4%92.2% Hawaiian 100%57.1% White 86.8%87.3%* Hispanic 78.9%80.9%* Multi-Racial 96.3%86.4% English Language Learners 75.1%75.0% Students with Disabilities 66.7%64.1% Low Income 77.3%77.8%* * Made ESEA Target

Appoquinimink86.5%94.7% Brandywine85.0%84.6% Caesar Rodney79.9%88.5% Cape Henlopen83.0%91.0% Capital75.6%83.1% Christina67.4%74.5% Colonial70.7%80.8% Delmar89.3%92.3% Indian River86.6%93.7% Lake Forest77.3%82.1% Laurel61.4%76.7% Decrease from previous year

Maurice J. Moyer Academic Institute 40.5%32.1% Milford83.3%84.2% NCCVT87.6%93.6% Polytech98.1%97.2% Positive Outcomes 50.0%54.5% Red Clay Includes Charter School of Wilmington and Delaware Military Academy 84.4%90.3% Seaford74.2%79.7% Smyrna77.7%77.6% Sussex Tech98.7%97.2% Woodbridge60.7%82.7% Decrease from previous year

Number of cohort members who earned a regular high school diploma through Fall of Number of first-time 9 th graders in the fall of 2009 (starting cohort) plus students who transfer in, minus students who transfer out, emigrate, or are deceased during school years , , , ,

SY Began 9 th grade SY Year 2 SY Year 3 SY year graduate SY year graduate

4 Year Adjusted Cohort Graduates When we added an additional year (Year 5) the New # of Graduates Net Change from year 4 to year 5 4 Year Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate 5 Year Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate All Students African American Asian Hispanic White Multi-Racial Low Income Students with Disabilities English Language Learners

“There’s no young person who aspires to be a high school dropout.” “When someone drops out, it’s a symptom of a problem. It’s not the problem itself. Something has gone radically wrong.” U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan

 Dropout rate: ◦ Dropout rate is calculated for grades 9 through 12 as prescribed by the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) ◦ Dropout rate is total number of students (grades 9-12) who dropped out in a single year, divided by the total enrollment of the same school year. This is reported as the event (annual) dropout rate.

 For the school year, grades 9-12:  817 of the 38,949 students enrolled dropped out of school during the school year  Annual dropout rate for is 2.1%  Decrease from the previous year’s rate of 2.9%

National Average 4.4%4.1% 3.4%3.3% --- Delaware5.5%6.0%5.1%3.9%3.7%3.9%2.9%2.1%

Grade 7 Grade 8 No. of Dropouts Students Enrolled Dropout Rate No. of Dropouts Students Enrolled Dropout Rate Kent County 352,4201.4%402,3111.7% New Castle County 405,6820.7%895,8461.5% Sussex County 131,9890.7% 171,9330.9% State 8810,0910.9%14610,0901.4%

Delaware Dropout Rate by County by Grade Number of Enrolled StudentsNumber of Dropouts Grade County All All Kent2,5462,2142,0411,8638, New Castle6,8535,7525,0575,10222, Sussex2,1451,8561,8031,7177, State11,5449,8228,9018,68238,

SY Enrollment SY # of Dropouts SY Enrollment SY # of Dropouts SY Enrollment SY # of Dropouts New Castle County 22,7731,022 (4.5%) 22, (3.0%) 22, (2.3%) Kent County8, (3.3%) 8, (2.9%) 8, (1.8%) Sussex County7, (2.9%) 7, (2.4%) 7, (1.9%)

Middletown HS29<15 Appoquinimink HS27<15 Howard Tech HS<15 St Georges Tech HS<15 Paul M. Hodgson<15 Delcastle Tech HS23<15 Brandywine HS Concord HS Mt Pleasant HS2939<15 Conrad School of Science<15 Cab Callaway School of Arts<15 John Dickinson HS A. I. duPont HS5737 Thomas McKean HS Charter Sch of Wilm15<15 Christiana HS Glasgow HS Newark HS William Penn HS M.J. Moyer Academy Delaware Acad of Public Safety<15 Delaware Mil. Acad.<15

Positive Outcomes <1513<15 Caesar Rodney HS Dover HS5726 POLYTECH HS<15 Lake Forest HS Milford HS Smyrna HS463428

Sussex Academy<15 Cape Henlopen HS3527<15 Delmar Senior HS<15 Indian River HS18<1515 Sussex Central Senior HS 2027 Laurel Senior HS Seaford Senior HS Sussex Tech HS<15 Woodbridge HS2334<15

4 Year Adjusted Cohort Dropout Rate  The number of students who leave school for any reason other than death within the 4 year period divided by the number of students who form the adjusted cohort.  We will be looking at 3 different cohorts of students to examine the dropouts and track the number of students lost each year within those cohorts.

# of Students that dropped out in 1 st Year # of Students that dropped out in Year 2 # of Students that dropped out in Year 3 # of Students that dropped out in Year 4 Total # of Dropouts over the 4 years for each of the adjusted cohort classes 4 Year Adjusted Cohort Dropout Rate Class of 2012 Began 9 th grade in Fall (5.7%) 451 (59.3%) 100 (13.2%) 166 (21.8%) Class of 2013 Began 9 th grade in Fall (37.6%) 109 (14.6%) 213 (28.5%) 144 (19.3%) Class of 2014 Began 9 th grade in Fall (12.4%) 179 (36.9%) 134 (27.6%) 112 (23.1%)

Challis Breithaupt Education Associate (302) Fran Purnell Education Specialist (302)