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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know the all boys schools in my area lie about their graduation rates so parents think their kids are messed up if they don't want to be there.  Do the all boys schools discussed here all say their graduation rates are 100%???[/quote] great question here.  What are the graduation rates of these schools.  Do they say 100%?[/quote] According to niche.com STA has a graduation rate of 100%.  Can anyone here confirm that no one has ever left the school and that everyone that has ever gone there has stayed and graduated?  A graduation rate of 100% is either amazing or dishonest.[/quote]

Depends on how the cohort is defined. Usually, schools/DOEs define the adjusted cohort something like this: The four-year cohort is based on the number of students who enter grade 9 for the first time adjusted by adding into the cohort any student who transfers in later during grade 9 or during the next three years and subtracting any student from the cohort who transfers out, emigrates to another country, transfers to a prison or juvenile facility, or dies during that same period.[/quote] Interesting thank you.    So if the cohort removed anyone who left the school,  then 100% would be accurate but misleading at the same time. [/quote]

DP here. It means kids staying until the end are all graduating as opposed to kids that don't have enough credits or have not completed their requirements. So all seniors enrolled at the school until senior spring last day of classes have met their requirements to graduate. [/quote] when I think of a graduation rate, it means the rate at which people that go to a school graduate.  Not people that stay until graduation and then graduate.  But thank you for clarifying.  That is helpful.  Do we know the graduation rate if we including everyone that went to school at any point?[/quote]

Sounds like you are fishing? All schools have kids that transfer out or leave for a variety of reasons. [/quote]  it's not unreasonable for a parent to want to know the percentage of kids that leave a school.  It can say a lot about a school.  If 5 or 10 kids leave a school a year, not a big deal.  But it it's closer to 40% or 50%, that tells me a lot of kids that go there don't want to stay there.  [/quote]  Agree.  It's not unreasonable to want to know this before sending a kid to a school.[/quote]

No one's saying it's unreasonable. People are saying that's a different question from graduation rate. [/quote]  Does anyone know the percentage that go there that stay and graduate?  Earlier in the thread it was mentioned there was very little attrition.  Maybe this was a different school or maybe this graduation rate calc misleads people.[/quote]

STA has very little attrition in the high school. 8th grade is where there is significant drop off. Depending on the year, you might have somewhere between 5-10 boys leave out of a class of ~60.

8th grade is when the boys figure out whether STA is really for them. If the student is not bright and academically inclined the school can be a horrible joyless grind. The grades show whether they can handle it or not. [/quote]

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