Sentences with phrase «year graduation rate went»

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«Here we are, poverty's going up, the graduation rate is stagnant or going down, businesses are fleeing, the state of New York in the past six years lost 857,000.»

College enrollment rates in the first year following high school graduation have also been going up, reaching 70 percent in 2010.

The four - year high school graduation rate went up from 67 percent in 2010 to 71 percent in 2016.

Winners of the $ 4 billion Race to the Top jackpot committed to grand goals in using the federal grants to raise student achievement, as measured by higher test scores, narrowed achievement gaps, and increased graduation and college - going rates — all in four years.

The upshot of this improvement in college readiness is that, upon graduation, while charter and public school students are just as likely to go on to post-secondary education, charter students enroll at four - year colleges at much higher rates.

A school where the pass rate goes from 65 to 75 percent in a year may be making exceptional progress, but it is hardly adequate if a quarter of the students can't meet the graduation requirements.

YES reports a six - year graduation rate of 41 %, which is four times the national average for demographically similar students (97 % of YES Prep students are Hispanic or African - American, and 90 % would be first - generation college - goers).

The other factor is whether your school's score went up or down compared with the previous year or a 3 - year average for graduation rates.

CPA's graduation rate is 86.9 % and of the graduates, 93 % go on to 2 - or 4 year - colleges.

These results show that while the incremental college - going rate dramatically decreases one year after high school graduation, students continue enrolling in colleges and universities beyond the first year.

We've never gone the whole school year below our capacity, and the HS graduation rate of our students (8th graders) is above the state average, and definitely above the average for our neighboring high schools.

BPIC's staff calls graduates from previous years 10 months after graduation to track their progress and determine college - going rates.

Graduation rates went to 78 % last year from 52 % before Katrina — surpassing Detroit, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Oakland, Calif., cities also struggling to boost achievement among lower - income students.

«Since (Bloomberg) achieved mayoral control of education, our graduation rate has gone up almost 50 percent in 15 years — 50 percent!»

Although Vermont's graduation rate — 88 percent of high school students graduate in four years — is well above the national average, only 52 percent of graduates went to college in 2013.

But as more teachers have signed on to the Carnegie program at KAPPA International, attendance and four - year - graduation rates have gone up.

This makes the new goal set by the major charter school networks, to grade themselves on the percentage of their students who go on to earn four - year college degrees in six years, all the more radical — especially given the fact that these networks educate low - income, minority students, whose college graduation rates pale in comparison to their more affluent white peers — a mere 9 percent earning degrees within six years, compared with 77 percent of students from high - income families as of 2015.

We partnered with North Chicago Community High School for three years to improve their graduation, attendance, and college - going rates.

Governor Brown went on to say that «this must change,» and she highlighted the Woodburn School District for its dramatically improved graduation rate — a 24 percent increase in six years.

Those improved outcomes include graduation rates which have gone up in Connecticut for the seventh year in a row, aided along the way by strong charter schools.

Another study in Chile found, «On net, the voucher reforms increased primary school graduation rates by 0.6 percentage points, high school graduation rates by 3.6 percent, college - going rates by 3.1 percent and the percent completing at least four years of college by 1.8 percent for individuals exposed to the reform during their entire schooling career.»

One year after he left the mayor's office, the graduation rate for Latino students went from 40 percent to 76 percent and 71 for black students.

Although California reports an official graduation rate of 87 % to the Federal Government using a Federal formula, on the Dept of State website they say the rate is closer to 71 % (based on the % of freshmen who enter high school and go on to earn a diploma four years later).

Three years later, the number of fights at Lincoln Alternative High School had gone down by 75 percent and the graduation rate had increased fivefold.