80 percent of Rochester high school students graduate in four years

I recently learned that between 77% and 80% of Rochester high school students graduate in four years. Why is this so abysmal? Because if a student who starts in ninth grade does not graduate from that some school in four years, s/he has not graduated. If a student moves somewhere else and graduates, it doesn't matter. It still means that once again, Rochester schools have failed!

Comments

[TheinBomb]

Does this mean that if another student moves INTO our district and graduates then we would somehow have the ability of graduating more than 100% of our students? In other words, does this weird counting standard somehow hurt and help the district?

[rayschmitz]

I once tried to get an answer to this question from the superintendents offie and never got a response, that is, of kids who start in rochester how many graduate vs those who may move into the district. Seems to me that is a valid question, if we invest in early education does it work in the long run.

[Julie Workman]

I'm not surprised that you didn't get a response, Ray. I do not know at what point in time a student coming into the district 'counts' for graduation. I will try to follow up on it with someone downtown.