GRAD Partnership Student Success Systems

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Description

A framework developed by the GRAD Partnership for organizing secondary-school supports around relationships, holistic data, strategic improvement actions, and student-centered mindsets.

Components

• Student success systems framework: four essential elements for secondary schools: The GRAD Partnership framework, summarized in this report, defines student success systems as "an evidence-based approach to organizing school communities to better support the academic progress, career and college transitions, and well-being of all students." It holds that "High-quality, student success systems combine four essential elements": strong supportive relationships, real-time actionable holistic data, strategic improvement actions, and student-centered mindsets, supported by team infrastructure practices such as clear roles, collaborative improvement planning, and regular data-review cadences. The report uses this framework as the lens for evaluating each district-led innovation. (Liberman et al. (2025))

Claims

• Students off track after ninth grade are less than half as likely to graduate, with Black and Latino students 46% and 31% more likely than the national average to be off track in 2022 [+M]
• Demopolis High School's Google Sheets-based student tracker was followed by a 7% drop in chronic absenteeism and over 3% change in graduation rate [+W]
• Lynwood Unified's custom dashboards and intervention tools were followed by a decrease in high school D/F rates of over 8% and 593 interventions logged in one year [+W]

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Key Sources

• Liberman, B., Bradbury, J., Vollavanh, A. & Karim, S. (Eds.). (2025). Innovating for Student Success: District-Led Innovation Showcase. Digital Promise. https://doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/255

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