Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 28 - EDUCATION
Part LXXXIII - Bulletin 111-The Louisiana School, District, and State Accountability System
Chapter 7 - Subgroup Component
Section LXXXIII-708 - Using a Graduation Rate in the Subgroup Component

Universal Citation: LA Admin Code LXXXIII-708

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

A. As required by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, Louisiana shall calculate a graduation rate based on a cohort of students beginning in 2007.

B. The definition of a cohort for this calculation is the same as that used in §603

C. The additional academic indicator (AAI) calculation shall comply with High School Graduation Rate: Non-Regulatory Guidance (December 22, 2008) published by the U. S. Department of Education.

1. For subgroup accountability purposes, Louisiana high schools shall use an increasing target for the additional academic indicator.

2. For subgroup accountability purposes, Louisiana's high school annual targets shall increase annually as shown in the following table.

Louisiana Annual Graduation Rate Targets

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

63.0%

64.3%

65.6%

66.9%

68.2%

69.5%

70.8%

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

72.2%

73.5%

74.8%

76.1%

77.4%

78.7%

80.0%

3. For subgroup accountability purposes, each Louisiana school that enrolls students in ninth grade or higher and offers at least a regular diploma shall have annual targets calculated by the LDE that begin with the school's 2007 graduation rate and increase by equal increments (rounded to 1 decimal place) to reach 80.0 percent in 2022.

4. The increment each school must improve each year to maintain its progress toward the 2022 goal is the "annual improvement step."

D. Confidence intervals shall not be applied to any graduation rate considerations beginning with the 2010 accountability decisions.

E. Determining if a school or subgroup within a school has made AYP as it relates specifically to graduation rate is accomplished by answering a series of Yes/No questions. When an answer is "yes," a school or subgroup has made AYP (related to graduation rate) and no further answers are required for the specific school or subgroup.

1. Does the cohort have fewer than 40 members?

2. Has the cohort met or exceeded an 80.0 percent graduation rate?

3. Has the cohort met or exceeded the state annual target?

4. Has the cohort met or exceeded the school annual target?

5. Has the cohort met or exceeded 110 percent of the annual improvement step (defined in Paragraph C.4).

F. If at the end of the series of 5 questions a "yes" is not provided, the cohort has failed AYP.

G. A school (or subgroup) that exceeds the state's target with its 2009 graduation rate shall use the state targets as school targets. New schools shall have targets based on their second year graduation rates and the number of years remaining until 2022.

H. All subgroups and the whole school shall be evaluated using the steps delineated in this Section regardless of safe harbor considerations.

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:10.1.

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