Just as I was getting ready to write about the utter lack of graduation-rate information from the city, a new 276-page report popped up on the DOE’s website. At long last, the Class of 2007 Four-Year Longitudinal Report.
Really long last. This is the data for the class that graduated not this year but the year before. It’s old, but it’s welcome. This is the report DOE/BOE has issued every year since 1986, but which was superceded when the city agreed to let the state count graduates its way this year. The state’s report, which was released (scandalously late) on August 11, gave some but not all NYC data.
Herewith, some highlights that were missing from the state account, calculated the city’s traditional way:
62% of the Class of 2007 (who entered high school as freshmen in 2003) graduated in four years, a record-high on-time graduation rate. This figure was reported earlier by the DOE.
24.2% remained enrolled for a fifth year (versus 25.6% for the Class of 2006).
13.8% dropped out, a record-low dropout rate. Over 65% of those dropouts entered high school overage for grade.
Of the four-year graduates, just over 65% received Regents diplomas, up from 60.7% in 2006. Of the rest, 29.7% got local diplomas and 4.1% got GEDs. For special ed students, 0.9% received IEP diplomas–a slight uptick from the previous two years.
67% of students in Career and Technical Education Schools graduated on time, up from 65.1% of the Class of 2006 CTE schools
There’s plenty more data, on ELLs, special ed students, students by race and gender. And the appendix includes all the data for each individual high school.
4 Comments:
1 jd2718
· Aug 27, 2008 at 9:19 am
Wow, there’s a lot of data in that report - and for just one cohort.
Can you point to the links to the previous reports?
Also on the data front, the State’s school report cards will apparently include teacher turnover data… Two years out of date, but a start is a start.
Thanks for posting this,
Jonathan
2 Maisie
· Aug 27, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Hi Jonathan,
Here’s a link to the graduation rate reports archives: http://schools.nyc.gov/daa/ARCHV_reports/default.asp, All these numbers get confusing but at least with the city reports you get the same tables every year, using the same methodology.
Maisie
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