Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 08:43:08 -0400
From: Mia Munn
Subject: graduation rate
The graduation rate is determining by taking the number of students entering 9th grade in a given year, subtracting students who transfer out to another public, private or homeschool, adding students who transfer in, subtracting students who die. (Students who drop out to attend community college are not considered as transfers.) That is
the denominator. The number of students who graduate 4 years later (or earlier) is the numerator.
This is a standard way of determining graduation rate in all states.
Mia Munn