MMSD Withdrawal/Did Not Graduate Student Data

(1995 - 1999)

When the District analyzed dropout data for this five year period, they identified four student profiles. One of these groups, it could be argued, would have benefited from appropriately challenging learning opportunities, opportunities which might have kept them engaged in school and enabled them to graduate.

Group 1: High Achiever, Short Tenure, Behaved

This group comprises 27% of all dropouts during this five-year period.

Characteristics of this group:
• Grade 5 math scores 84.2 percentile
• Male 55%
• Low income 53%
• Minority 42%
• African American 31%
• Hispanic 6%
• Asian 5%

High School	East	La Follette	Memorial	West
Group 1 dropouts (expressed as the % of total dropouts for that school)	25.9	23.8	23.4	32.4

An explication of the data (in the form of a letter to the BoE written during the 2004 budget deliberations)

 

* Data from MMSD Research and Evaluation report -- May, 2000