Reply #8: That's one reason to have uniform methodolgies for determining drop-out rates. [View All]

[Igel]

At the same time, if you look at all the schools together, transfers shouldn't matter. If "my" school has 10 kids "drop out" and go to "your school", then your number will be increased.

Early at late graduates would average out.

If you sum all the entering 9th grade cohorts and, 4 years later, compare them to the cohort finishing 12th grade, you get a good enough number. Ideally, you then add in GEDs--there's no way to figure out which cohort to distribute them to, but if the GED numbers don't vary much by year it shouldn't matter much.