CPS's four-year high school graduation rate reached a record 85.0% in 2023, up about one percentage point from 84.1% in 2022¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Among 2019–20 first-time ninth-graders, 85.0% graduated from high school by spring 2023, the highest rate the report has ever recorded. → Mahaffie 2024

Evidence¶

Mahaffie 2024¶

Mahaffie, S., Usher, A., Nagaoka, J., & McKoy, D. (2024). The educational attainment of Chicago Public Schools students: 2023. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. https://toandthrough.uchicago.edu/tool/cps/

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Cohort analysis of CPS administrative records for the 25,091-student 2019–20 ninth-grade cohort, counting graduation within four years of first-time ninth-grade year, including charter and Options school students.

"Among 2019–20 first-time ninth-graders, 85% graduated from high school by spring 2023. This is the highest rate we have ever reported."

Mahaffie 2024 (2)¶

Mahaffie, S., Usher, A., Nagaoka, J., & McKoy, D. (2024). The educational attainment of Chicago Public Schools students: 2023. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. https://toandthrough.uchicago.edu/tool/cps/

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Time-trend analysis of four-year graduation rates from 2008 (62.2%) through 2023 (85.0%) shown in Figure 3; the rate rose "from 84.1% in 2022 to 85.0% in 2023".

"The high school graduation rate of CPS students increased by around 1 percentage point, from 84.1% in 2022 to 85.0% in 2023."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• CPS four-year high school graduation rose to 84.0% in 2022, the highest rate in recent history, after a slight pandemic-related decline in 2021 — related
• CPS's four-year high school graduation rate declined for the first time in recent history in 2021, from 83.3% to 81.8% — related
• CPS high school graduation rates show large gaps by race/ethnicity and gender, with young men graduating at lower rates than young women within every race/ethnicity group — related
• At UCLA Community School, the share of graduates meeting UC/CSU A-G course requirements rose to 81% in 2021 and the 4-year graduation rate grew from 69% in 2012 to 90% in 2022 — related
• University High's 4-year graduation rate rose from 36% in 2022 to 55% in 2023 and was maintained in 2024 — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• The four-year CPS high school graduation rate rose from 62.3 percent for the 2008 cohort to an all-time high of 83.2 percent for the 2020 cohort — related
• Graduation rates declined by about four percentage points in the first policy year and one more the next, then recovered to nearly pre-policy levels within five years — related
• CPS Freshman OnTrack rates rose 28 percentage points from 61 percent (2007) to 89 percent (2019), then flattened in recent years — related
• CPS Freshman OnTrack rates rose from 58 to 89 percent between 2007 and 2017 while graduation rates rose 19 percentage points — related
• Within every CPS race/ethnicity group, young men graduated from high school at a lower rate than young women of the same race/ethnicity — related
• Nearly one in five recent CPS ninth-graders were ever enrolled in an Options school, and their six-year graduation rate improved about 5 percentage points but remained below 50 percent — related