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Idaho: High school graduation rate

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Starting with the 2013-2014 school year, the Idaho State Department of Education has adopted a four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate. An adjusted cohort tracks 9th graders through all four years of high school. The cohort is adjusted to account for students who move to or from another district, leave the country, or pass away. The four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate measures the number of students who graduate with a regular high school diploma in four years divided by the number of students in the adjusted cohort.

Not all districts report graduation rates. Please see Idaho Department of Education, Report Card for more information: https://apps.sde.idaho.gov/Accountability/ReportCard
The four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate for Idaho is shown below:

High school graduation rate (%)

	2013 - 2014	2014 - 2015	2015 - 2016	2016 - 2017
Idaho	77.3	78.9	79.7	79.7

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· Do school districts in your county have high or low high school graduation rates?

· Are high school graduation rates in your county increasing or decreasing over time?

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· “County types: County policy type codes” – Is your county classified as a “low education” county?

· “Education: Educational attainment” – Does your county have high or low levels of educational attainment?

· “Income and poverty: Reduced price school lunch” – If your county has districts with low graduation rates, do those same districts also have high student poverty rates?

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Note: The "four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate" is calculated by the number of students who graduate in four years with a regular high school diploma divided by the cohort of students who entered school together in 9th grade, while modifying for transfer students and those students who emigrated or expired.

Source: 2013-2017: Idaho State Department of Education, (https://apps.sde.idaho.gov/Accountability/ReportCard.); U.S. data: National Center for Education Statistics - (https://nces.ed.gov/programs/dropout/ind_04.asp);
DATE LAST UPDATED: March 5, 2019.