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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s wrong with Woodson’s new ranking? Dropped to 16th in VA.[/quote] I know it’s a small portion of the ratings, but the 93% graduation rate stands out to me. I would have expected something like 98%.[/quote] How many of those are military kids transferring out?[/quote] I have no idea how this works, but some other graduation rates were pretty crazy like Justice at 77%, Herndon at 83%, Annandale at 85%, Centreville at 90%, Fairfax at 91%. How does that work when 1 in 6 kids aren't graduating. Do the kids know? Are they just absent or transfers? These rates seem low including Woodson.[/quote] Those rates are due to the ELL kids. A few of them are indeed real drop outs, but most of them are older ELL kids that learn they can transfer to an FCPS GED program, adult HS, or one of FCPS's alternative programs and get done with school much faster and on a part-time basis so that they can also enter the workforce sooner. That's means they get disenrolled from their base school and enrolled into another program. Some principals are against referring their students to those other programs specifically because it hurts their school's graduation rate calculation. Even though most of the time ELL kids are much better served by alternate programs. If Justice is referring 20% of their students out to get GEDs, then that's a good thing even if 77% graduation rate looks bad. Just another reason why it's important to look at context behind statistics.[/quote]
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