Dec 12, 2016 - School-level graduation rates are available online at https://edstats.fldoe.org/SASPortal/public. In the
Florida’s High School Cohort 2015-16 Graduation Rate December 2016 Florida’s Graduation Rate Florida’s high school graduation rate increased by 2.8 percentage points over the last year and has increased significantly during the past eleven years. The rate rose from 59.2 percent in 2003-04 to 80.7 percent in 2015-16. Figure 1 below shows the trend in graduation rates from 2003-04 through 2015-16. Federal regulations require each state to calculate a four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate, which includes standard diplomas but excludes GEDs, both regular and adult, and special diplomas. The U.S. Department of Education (USED) adopted this calculation method in an effort to develop uniform, accurate and comparable graduation rates across all states. The USED required states to begin calculating the new graduation rate in 2010-11. This graduation rate is currently used in Florida’s school accountability system in the high school grades calculation.
Figure 1: Florida’s Graduation Rates, 2003-04 through 2015-16 85.0% 80.7% 80.0% 74.5%
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65.5% 65.0% 60.0%
62.7% 59.2%
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Florida’s graduation rate is a cohort graduation rate. A cohort is defined as a group of students on the same schedule to graduate. The graduation rate measures the percentage of students who graduate within four years of their first enrollment in ninth grade. Subsequent to their enrollment in ninth grade, students who transfer out and deceased students are removed from the calculation. Entering transfer students are included in the graduation rate for the class with which they are scheduled to graduate, based on their date of enrollment. District-level graduation rates are provided in Table 3. School-level graduation rates are available online at https://edstats.fldoe.org/SASPortal/public. In the calculation, stringent guidelines are prescribed for not only the definition of a graduate, but also for the definition of a transfer. Students who transfer to adult education programs or Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) facilities remain with their regular high schools’ cohorts. 1
How Does Florida’s Graduation Rate Compare with Other States’ Rates? • • • •
The USED recently released information on all states’ 2014-15 federal graduation rates at https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/tables/ACGR_RE_and_characteristics_2014-15.asp. Florida’s federal graduation rate in 2014-15 was 77.9 percent which placed nine states (including the District of Columbia) below it. However, subsequent to this release, Florida has increased its graduation rate by 2.8 percentage points in 2015-16. Although the federal uniform graduation rate is calculated the same way by each state, states have different requirements for receiving a standard diploma, which means that the rates are not directly comparable from state to state. Florida’s standard diploma is a rigorous credential for which standards and testing requirements have periodically increased. Because states have different criteria for awarding a standard diploma, comparing rates among states is problematic.
Graduation Rates by Race/Ethnicity and Gender Florida’s graduation rates vary by race/ethnicity, but all groups have increased their graduation rates since 2011-12. The subgroup with the largest percentage point increases over 2014-15 include African Americans (4.3 percentage points) and Hispanic (2.8 percentage points).
Table 1: Graduation Rates by Race/Ethnicity, 2011-12 through 2015-16
Year 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16
White 79.5% 80.5% 81.7% 82.8% 85.1%
Black or African American 63.7% 64.6% 64.7% 68.0% 72.3%
Hispanic/ Latino 73.0% 74.9% 75.0% 76.7% 79.5%
Asian 88.5% 88.4% 89.2% 90.9% 91.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native 69.7% 76.8% 73.8% 75.7% 76.5%
Two or More Races 78.7% 79.7% 80.1% 81.5% 82.7%
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander 62.5% 88.2% 75.6% 82.6% 84.7%
Total 74.5% 75.6% 76.1% 77.9% 80.7%
Note: Beginning with the 2010-11 school year, Florida implemented new data elements for collecting and reporting student demographic data in compliance with changes made by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. For race, students select one or more of the following: American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Black or African American, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, White. Students who select more than one racial category, but do not indicate that they are Hispanic or Latino, are included in the Two or More Races category in this report. All students who indicated that they are Hispanic or Latino are included only in the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity rates in this report; they are not included in the racial categories they have selected.
Table 2: Graduation Rates by Gender within Race/Ethnicity, 2011-12 through 2015-16
Year 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14
White Female 83.4% 84.4% 85.3%
White Male 75.7% 76.7% 78.2%
Black or African American Female 70.0% 70.5% 69.4%
2014-15 2015-16
86.3% 88.3%
79.4% 82.0%
73.1% 77.7%
Black or African American Male 57.4% 58.9% 59.9%
Hispanic/ Latino Female 77.2% 78.0% 78.4%
Hispanic/ Latino Male 68.9% 71.9% 71.6%
Asian Female 90.5% 90.8% 90.8%
Asian Male 86.5% 86.0% 87.5%
62.9% 67.0%
80.4% 83.2%
73.1% 75.8%
92.1% 93.2%
89.6% 90.6%
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Table 2 Continued: Graduation Rates by Gender within Race/Ethnicity, 2011-12 through 2015-16
Year 2011-12
American Indian or Alaska Native Female 73.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native Male 65.6%
Two or More Races Female 81.6%
2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16
83.5% 79.5% 81.1% 79.8%
70.9% 68.0% 70.2% 73.4%
83.1% 83.5% 84.4% 86.2%
Two or More Races Male 75.8%
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander Female 61.5%
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander Male 63.2%
Total Female 78.9%
Total Male 70.3%
76.3% 77.3% 78.3% 78.9%
91.7% 77.1% 82.5% 89.7%
86.4% 74.1% 82.7% 78.8%
79.7% 79.9% 81.7% 84.5%
71.6% 72.5% 74.1% 77.0%
Table 3: Graduation Rates by District, 2011-12 through 2015-16
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38
District FLORIDA Alachua Baker Bay Bradford Brevard Broward Calhoun Charlotte Citrus Clay Collier Columbia Miami-Dade DeSoto Dixie Duval Escambia Flagler Franklin Gadsden Gilchrist Glades Gulf Hamilton Hardee Hendry Hernando Highlands Hillsborough Holmes Indian River Jackson Jefferson Lafayette Lake Lee Leon Levy
2011-12 74.5% 68.7% 72.8% 73.7% 64.2% 85.2% 76.4% 77.3% 79.2% 78.0% 74.2% 78.4% 64.8% 76.0% 67.9% 77.1% 67.7% 62.1% 74.8% 59.0% 61.4% 85.9% 64.8% 84.7% 55.0% 63.6% 73.5% 74.2% 62.1% 72.6% 72.8% 80.9% 69.2% 42.6% 65.8% 78.2% 71.9% 71.3% 72.2%
2012-13 75.6% 72.6% 72.1% 73.0% 67.5% 87.4% 75.3% 80.6% 75.5% 80.1% 77.9% 81.3% 65.7% 77.2% 61.6% 82.4% 72.1% 64.2% 76.9% 58.8% 58.3% 89.7% 61.8% 85.7% 55.5% 65.2% 67.8% 74.1% 61.8% 74.1% 78.1% 80.1% 72.1% 35.1% 87.5% 78.3% 74.4% 77.0% 77.8%
2013-14 76.1% 72.2% 75.2% 70.8% 71.3% 85.8% 74.2% 80.8% 76.2% 77.0% 80.1% 82.1% 61.0% 76.6% 61.0% 87.8% 74.0% 66.1% 77.8% 69.9% 56.0% 95.4% 60.8% 77.8% 78.6% 64.3% 67.5% 76.7% 63.6% 73.5% 71.6% 79.1% 70.2% 56.7% 80.0% 76.6% 75.2% 83.5% 69.1%
2014-15 77.9% 74.3% 81.8% 70.6% 76.9% 86.2% 76.6% 84.0% 75.5% 77.4% 83.7% 84.3% 71.0% 78.1% 62.2% 96.9% 76.6% 72.7% 77.5% 49.0% 65.4% 94.0% 80.7% 83.6% 73.7% 59.7% 76.8% 78.0% 64.5% 76.0% 80.5% 81.2% 69.7% 73.3% 87.0% 75.8% 74.7% 87.2% 81.6%
2015-16 80.7% 78.4% 79.4% 81.0% 83.7% 87.5% 78.7% 82.9% 77.4% 79.0% 84.7% 86.7% 75.0% 80.4% 61.6% 96.1% 78.8% 76.1% 80.4% 72.6% 68.4% 97.7% 78.3% 81.5% 83.0% 67.3% 78.1% 81.1% 68.1% 79.1% 72.4% 87.2% 72.6% 70.0% 93.2% 78.1% 77.8% 92.3% 81.4%
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Table 3: Graduation Rates by District, 2011-12 through 2015-16
Notes:
39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 71 72 73 74 75
District FLORIDA Liberty Madison Manatee Marion Martin Monroe Nassau Okaloosa Okeechobee Orange Osceola Palm Beach Pasco Pinellas Polk Putnam St. Johns St. Lucie Santa Rosa Sarasota Seminole Sumter Suwannee Taylor Union Volusia Wakulla Walton Washington Deaf/Blind Wash. Special FL Virtual FAU Lab School FSU Charter School FAMU Lab School UF Lab School
2011-12 74.5% 64.2% 66.3% 76.2% 75.2% 84.9% 68.6% 89.0% 83.3% 58.9% 73.9% 77.5% 77.0% 76.6% 72.0% 67.6% 58.9% 86.0% 70.6% 77.2% 78.0% 80.3% 77.7% 59.5% 63.5% 70.4% 66.8% 70.4% 74.5% 71.1% 36.9% 0.0% * 100.0% 98.5% 81.8% 94.8%
2012-13 75.6% 68.9% 64.0% 76.8% 76.7% 87.7% 71.3% 90.9% 82.7% 63.0% 75.9% 78.1% 76.3% 75.9% 71.9% 69.4% 58.2% 86.7% 67.7% 78.9% 76.2% 83.8% 78.5% 59.5% 62.4% 79.0% 68.0% 78.9% 77.6% 71.0% 44.0% * * 100.0% 97.6% 92.9% 95.0%
2013-14 76.1% 71.3% 75.7% 75.7% 77.9% 88.8% 72.8% 89.9% 82.5% 61.2% 74.6% 78.0% 77.9% 79.4% 76.2% 69.0% 58.2% 87.8% 73.2% 82.8% 81.3% 85.1% 83.4% 76.6% 49.5% 82.8% 70.6% 75.1% 68.4% 66.2% 51.8% * 74.9% 100.0% 88.0% 76.7% 97.3%
2014-15 77.9% 77.7% 58.1% 77.9% 80.7% 88.9% 76.9% 90.9% 82.4% 65.9% 77.6% 80.6% 79.4% 78.6% 78.3% 69.4% 54.9% 90.5% 75.5% 83.2% 79.2% 86.4% 80.4% 67.5% 64.7% 77.7% 71.6% 78.1% 74.4% 70.5% 46.3% * 70.9% 100.0% 97.1% 97.1% 97.3%
2015-16 80.7% 75.0% 80.1% 83.5% 81.8% 88.7% 77.9% 91.4% 84.4% 70.5% 81.3% 82.0% 82.3% 79.1% 80.1% 71.8% 63.6% 91.2% 86.8% 85.7% 85.4% 88.3% 84.6% 89.6% 70.7% 72.4% 76.0% 86.9% 77.3% 76.3% 47.1% * 66.6% 100.0% 98.6% 94.9% 96.4%
Source: 2015-16 Florida Department of Education (FDOE) cohort graduation data as of 12/12/16 To provide meaningful results and to protect the privacy of individual students, data are displayed only when the total number of students in a group is at least 10. Data for groups less than 10 are displayed with an asterisk (*). A blank cell indicates no students in the cohort.
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Withdrawal Status of All Students in the Graduation Cohort Florida’s graduation rate is 80.7 percent, but that does not mean that 19.3 percent of students in the cohort are dropouts. Students in a cohort can be classified as graduates, dropouts and nongraduates. Nongraduates include students who have been retained and are still in school, received certificates of completion or received GED-based diplomas. In Florida’s 2015-16 cohort, 3.8 percent of the students dropped out and 15.5 percent are still enrolled in school, earned a certificate of completion, special diploma or GED-based diploma. Figure 2 illustrates the proportions of students in the 2015-16 cohort who graduated, dropped out and did not graduate.
Figure 2: 2015-16 Cohort Outcomes by Withdrawal Code Categories
Standard Diploma Graduates 159,672 80.7%
Total Dropping Out 7,492 3.8%
Total Not Graduating 30,722 15.5%
Special Diplomas: 2,244 (1.1%) GED-based Diplomas: 684 (0.3%) Certificates of Completion: 6,799 (3.4%) Still Enrolled: 20,995 (10.6%)
Note: Nongraduates include special diplomas, certificates of completion, GED recipients and students who are still enrolled.
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Florida Department of Education Pam Stewart, Commissioner
For questions regarding Florida’s High School Cohort Graduation Rate, contact: Florida Department of Education Division of Accountability, Research and Measurement Bureau of Accountability Reporting 850-245-0411
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