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¶
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q2 i? The six-year graduation rate for ever-Options students improved by about 5 percentage points between the 2007 and 2014 cohorts, with the largest gain (more than 3 points) between the 2013 and 2014 cohorts, yet slightly fewer than half of the 2014 cohort graduated by 2020. → Malone 2021
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Malone 2021¶
Malone, M., Mahaffie, S., Hernandez, G., Usher, A., & Nagaoka, J. (2021). The educational attainment of Chicago Public Schools students: 2020. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. http://toandthrough.uchicago.edu/tool/cps/hs
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Trend analysis of six-year graduation rates for ever-Options students (Figure 13, cohort Ns 4,081–5,052), using a six-year frame because Options schools serve students significantly behind on credits; rates rose from 43.2 percent (2007–08 cohort) to 48.9 percent (2014–15 cohort).
"The six-year high school graduation rate for students who were ever enrolled in an Options school improved by about 5 percentage points between the 2007 and 2014 ninth-grade cohorts. The most significant improvement happened between the 2013 and 2014 cohorts, when the rate increased by more than 3 percentage points."
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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
- 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 four-year completion rates rose 7 percentage points over ten years while enrollees nearly doubled, but remained far below six-year rates — related
- 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 — related
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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 |
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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 |
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