Monthly Archives: November 2014

Report Card on American Education

On Wednesday Dr. Matthew Ladner and Dave Myslinski released the 19th Edition of ALEC’s Report Card on American Education: Ranking State Performance, Progress and Reform saying,

The United States is world-class in spending per pupil, not so much in learning per pupil, and that our results for Black and Hispanic students are closer to those of Mexico than of South Korea, despite the fact that Mexico has a far larger poverty problem and spends a small fraction of American spending.

Snapshot of Georgia’s Report Card

Georgia Report Card

2014 Graduation Rates

WHAT IS A COHORT GRADUATION RATE?
A cohort graduation rate follows the students who are first-time high school students in a particular year and determines the percentage that graduate within a given time frame, such as four years.
WHAT IS THE FOUR-YEAR COHORT GRADUATION RATE?
The four-year cohort graduation rate is the percentage of students in a cohort, adjusted for transfers into and out of the school, district, or state, that graduate with a standard diploma within four years of entering high school.
State School Superintendent Dr. John Barge is celebrating a rise of less than 1% in Georgia’s public high school four-year cohort graduation rate. Michael Thurmond, DeKalb Superintendent, predicted a few weeks ago at the State of System Address that DeKalb Schools would “see the greatest graduation rate improvement of any of the 181 school districts.”  DeKalb Schools 2014 graduation rate is 62.3%, which is an increase of 3.4%.  Our increase did not come out on top as predicted.  DeKalb’s increase ranks 64th in the state and the overall graduation rate ranks 167th.
Below are the graduation rates for all DeKalb High Schools

Graduation Rates Graduation Class Size Total Graduated
SCHOOL NAME 2012 2013 2014 2014 2014
All Schools 57% 59% 62% 7250 4514
Arabia Mountain 90% 97% 98% 302 297
Cedar Grove 64% 64% 73% 233 169
Chamblee Charter 82% 83% 84% 334 279
Clarkston 44% 53% 52% 378 196
Columbia 60% 60% 62% 295 182
Cross Keys 51% 42% 47% 322 152
DeKalb Alternative School 2% 1% 4% 71 3
Dekalb Early College Academy 95% 97% 100% 37 37
DeKalb School of the Arts 92% 98% 100% 67 67
Destiny Achievers Academy 32% 37% 58% 36 21
Druid Hills 69% 68% 76% 324 246
Dunwoody 77% 74% 79% 360 283
Elizabeth Andrews 14% 11% 9% 270 25
Gateway to College Academy 7% 3% 10% 48 5
Lakeside 65% 72% 77% 416 322
Lithonia 46% 57% 67% 302 203
Martin Luther King, Jr. 55% 71% 65% 442 289
McNair 47% 46% 52% 206 108
Miller Grove 56% 60% 60% 380 226
Redan 78% 73% 80% 278 222
Southwest DeKalb 68% 68% 66% 349 231
Stephenson 70% 62% 72% 409 294
Stone Mountain 65% 60% 59% 303 180
Towers 47% 44% 54% 294 158
Tucker High School 78% 63% 69% 465 319