Recent policy
revisions to the Dropout Prevention
and Recovery ACT approved by the
Louisiana Board of Elementary and
Secondary Education require several
actions to take place at the school and
school district level.
All high schools throughout Louisiana
with a graduation rate below 80% have
prepared dropout prevention plans and
submitted those plans to the State
Department of Education.
All school districts will post the last
official graduation rate information of
each high school to the district
website. The last official
information from the Louisiana State
Department of Education reflects rates
in 2009. Preliminary rates for 2010 will
become final and official in the summer
of 2011. The posting of information will
be updated annually as statistics are
finalized.
The Dropout Prevention and Recovery Act
also requires high schools to report
cohort dropout rates (percentage of
students who withdraw from school
without completing high school) and the
annual retention rate (i.e. percentage
of 9th grade students who must repeat
the 9th grade).
The graduation
rate is the percentage of students
entering a high school as freshmen in a
specific year and graduating as a class
four years later with a regular diploma.
This group of students is referred to as
a “four year graduation cohort”.
Those freshmen that count against the
graduation rate include students in the
cohort who drop out, complete high
school with less than a regular diploma
(i.e. GED, Skills Certificate,
Certificate of Achievement) and those
that graduate after their cohort
graduates (i.e. a student taking more
than four years to earn a diploma).
Calcasieu Parish’s most recent
graduation rate as finalized and made
official by the Louisiana Department of
Education is 80.2%. (2009)
The graduation rate of the State of
Louisiana is 66.6%. (2009)
Graduation Rate for Barbe High School is
86.9%. (2009)
Graduation Rate for Bell City High
School is 89.4%. (2009)
Graduation Rate for DeQuincy High School
is 79.5. (2009)
Graduation Rate for Iowa High School is
81.7%. (2009)
Graduation Rate for LaGrange High School
is 68.7%. (2009)
Graduation Rate for Sam Houston High
School is 85.5%. (2009)
Graduation Rate for Starks High School
is 93.3%. (2009)
Graduation Rate for Sulphur High School
is 84.2%. (2009)
Graduation Rate for Vinton High School
is 81.3%. (2009)
Graduation Rate for Washington Marion
Magnet High School is 66.5% (2009)
Graduation Rate for Westlake High School
is 88.8%. (2009)
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