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Graduation Rates: Accountability for School Districts

  • Under the NCLB accountability system in New York State, individual school districts and schools are held accountable for all students who start 9th grade in a particular year (for example, 2002) and stay in school for at least 5 months during high school and do not transfer to another district or school. Therefore, the graduation rates for New York City’s community school districts and for all other school districts are computed in this way.

  • Those are the rates you see in the following slides.