Transcript RIVERSIDE COUNTY A-G COMPLETION REPORT

RIVERSIDE COUNTY
A-G COMPLETION REPORT
2011
Mike Horton
AVID Administrator, RCOE
Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements
Through 2018 — shows that fully 60 percent of jobs in the U.S will
require postsecondary education by 2018.
2018 is the year that present juniors in high school will graduate
college at the average of 5 years for bachelor’s degree
attainment.
Presently, what is the A-G completion rate for California?
Riverside County?
Co. AVID?
Statewide County Ranking
2010 High School Graduates
Meeting CTE/ROP Certification Requirements
County
2008-2009
Enrollment
Grades 9-12
2008-2009
Number of Capstone
CTE Course Students
with Sufficient
Technical Skills
(LEAs)
2008-2009
Number of Capstone
CTE Course Students
with Sufficient
Technical Skills
(ROCPs)
2008-2009
Number of Capstone
CTE Course Students
with Sufficient
Technical Skills
(LEAs+ROCPs)
2008-2009
Technical Skills
Attainment Rate
Tulare
28,118
2,195
4,151
6,346
22.6%
Contra Costa
52,848
2,209
8,698
10,907
20.6%
Los Angeles
532,158
15,080
86,560
101,640
19.1%
Riverside
133,842
6,987
17,635
24,622
18.4%
Orange
168,201
5,082
22,041
27,123
16.1%
Fresno
60,692
2,714
6,702
9,416
15.5%
San Bernardino
136,024
7,270
12,467
19,737
14.5%
San Joaquin
41,654
860
5,092
5,952
14.3%
State
2,013,686
77,928
202,374
280,302
13.9%
Kern
55,019
4,611
989
5,600
10.2%
Ventura
46,143
2,988
1,520
4,508
9.8%
San Diego
163,257
1,673
10,549
12,222
7.5%
Alameda
67,864
1,818
2,719
4,537
6.7%
Santa Clara
79,596
2,051
1,394
3,445
4.3%
San Mateo
27,595
643
491
1,134
4.1%
Sacramento
75,550
2,156
0
2,156
2.9%
Stanislaus
32,650
571
139
710
2.2%
Statewide County Ranking
2011 High School Graduation Rate
State Rank
Name
Cohort
Students
Cohort
Graduates
Cohort
Graduation
Rate
Cohort
Dropouts
Cohort
Dropout
Rate
Cohort
Special Ed
Completers
Cohort
Special Ed
Completers
Rate
Cohort Still
Enrolled
Cohort Still
Enrolled
Rate
Cohort GED
Completer
Cohort GED
Completer
Rate
1
Orange
43,430
35,469
81.7
6,057
14.0
239
0.6
1,617
3.7
48
0.1
2
Contra Costa
13,204
10,753
81.4
1,811
13.7
71
0.5
506
3.8
63
0.0
3
San Mateo
6,668
5,409
81.1
896
13.4
22
0.3
292
4.4
49
0.7
4
Ventura
11,813
9,268
78.5
1,636
13.9
43
0.4
819
6.9
47
0.4
5
Santa Clara
20,697
16,214
78.3
3,476
16.8
39
0.2
941
4.6
27
0.1
6
Riverside
33,814
25,812
76.3
5,662
16.7
180
0.5
2,067
6.1
93
0.3
7
Tulare
6,946
5,208
75.0
1,377
19.8
*
0.0
357
5.1
*
0.0
8
Alameda
18,098
13,527
74.7
3,463
19.1
64
0.4
1,019
5.6
25
0.1
8
Stanislaus
8,753
6,541
74.7
1,793
20.5
88
1.0
297
3.4
34
0.4
Statewide
519,247
386,222
74.4
94,312
18.2
2,676
0.5
34,086
6.6
1,951
0.4
10
Kern
13,824
10,272
74.3
2,488
18.0
70
0.5
988
7.2
*
0.0
11
San Diego
43,510
32,089
73.8
6,921
15.9
359
0.8
3,571
8.2
570
1.3
12
Sacramento
20,696
14,764
71.3
4,081
19.7
96
0.5
1,690
8.2
65
0.3
13
Los Angeles
133,824
95,254
71.2
27,199
20.3
616
0.5
10,357
7.7
398
0.3
14
San Joaquin
10,671
7,553
70.8
2,449
23.0
100
0.9
536
5.0
33
0.3
15
San Bernardino
35,105
24,300
69.2
7,451
21.2
77
0.2
3,184
9.1
93
0.3
16
Fresno
16,007
10,708
66.9
3,755
23.5
130
0.8
1,385
8.7
29
0.2
Statewide County Ranking
2011 High School Graduates
Meeting UC/CSU Required Courses
State Rank
County
2009
2010
2011
1
Santa Clara
7,586 ( 47.6 %)
8,003 ( 49.3 %)
8,229 ( 48.9 %)
2
Alameda
6,366 ( 46.7 %)
6,310 ( 46.5 %)
6,613 ( 47.5 %)
3
Contra Costa
3,905 ( 36.5 %)
4,085 ( 37.5 %)
5,221 ( 46.9 %)
4
San Diego
13,652 ( 43.6 %)
13,177 ( 41.6 %)
14,036 ( 41.7 %)
5
Los Angeles
30,090 ( 32.6 %)
37,452 ( 40.1 %)
41,597 ( 41.3 %)
6
San Mateo
2,911 ( 51.7 %)
2,478 ( 46.2 %)
2,147 ( 38.4 %)
7
Orange
13,575 ( 40.7 %)
13,920 ( 40.3 %)
13,142 ( 36.2 %)
Statewide
127,594 ( 33.9 %)
135,370 ( 35.3 %)
144,296 ( 35.6 %)
8
Ventura
3,583 ( 37.9 %)
3,255 ( 34.6 %)
3,264 ( 34.2 %)
9
Sacramento
4,512 ( 31.5 %)
4,378 ( 29.4 %)
5,053 ( 32.4 %)
10
Fresno
3,531 ( 33.3 %)
3,082 ( 28.5 %)
3,567 ( 32.0 %)
11
San Joaquin
1,843 ( 25.8 %)
1,840 ( 24.5 %)
2,168 ( 27.9 %)
12
Riverside
6,915 ( 29.3 %)
7,482 ( 29.4 %)
7,347 ( 27.2 %)
13
Kern
2,475 ( 25.1 %)
2,718 ( 27.2 %)
2,828 ( 26.1 %)
14
Stanislaus
1,479 ( 23.0 %)
1,446 ( 22.3 %)
1,692 ( 25.2 %)
15
San Bernardino
4,747 ( 19.9 %)
5,813 ( 23.7 %)
6,192 ( 23.1 %)
16
Tulare
1,258 ( 25.7 %)
1,194 ( 23.6 %)
997 ( 18.5 %)
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Education-Trust West studied K-12 districts in
California and gave them a letter grade across
several categories.
Key Data Systems pulled out the
Riverside County districts and
compared them to the rest of the
state.
Riverside County fared very well
in 3 out of the 4 categories.
-In the category of Overall Performance of under-represented
students, Riverside County districts occupied 3 out of the top 5
places in the state (including first place and the only grade of “B”).
-In the category of Achievement Gains for under-represented
students, Riverside County districts also occupied 3 of the top 5
places including first place and four districts earning grades of “A”.
-For closing the achievement gap, a Riverside County
district (Lake Elsinore) took the first place spot in
closing the African-American achievement gap. (Lake
Elsinore also took the top spot overall in the state.)
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But in A-G Completion for “Students of Color,”
Riverside County’s top spot was 9th place
If we calculate a GPA for the 4 categories:
 Category
1: 2.33
 Category 2: 2.67
 Category 3: 2.00
 Category 4 (A-G Comp.): 1.27
Key Data Systems suggested that the issue is likely a
reporting issue, the numbers are not actually that low.
There is a lot of evidence supporting this claim.
In one district, only 86 A-G completers were reported to
the state. AVID students alone in this district comprised
more than 200 A-G completers.
From another district, I analyzed senior transcripts and
found actual completion rates to be different than
reported completion rates. The district followed up and
found similar disparities.
By the 2014-2015 school year, API will be replaced by EQI
and will include, “a State Assessment Index, a Graduation
Rate Index, a College Preparedness Index, and a Career
Readiness Index.”
The CPI may include “. . . local and state assessments (EAP?),
course enrollment and completion (A-G?), academic and
extracurricular programs (AVID?), and advanced or
additional learning opportunities (Dual Enrollment/AP
Courses?) . . .”
“. . . additional weight for schools that can demonstrate that
English learners are making progress toward English
language acquisition, graduation, and preparedness for
college and career.”
It’s clear that we need to clean up the A-G data to
accurately determine what the next steps should be.
The elephant in the room
But . . . will that be enough?
A transcript analysis revealed that data cleaning is
not enough. In one Riverside County district, there
were 1,736 seniors. More than 230 missed
completing A-G by one category, many by one course
or one semester of one course.
Which of the A-G requirements do you think was
missed most?
a) HSS
b) ELA
c) Math
d) Science
e) Foreign
Language
f) VAPA
g) Elective
10
33
49
14
98
18
15
Long and Kurlaender found that, “Community college students were 36
percent less likely to obtain a bachelor's degree than similar students who
started at four-year colleges. Moreover, among community college students
who expressed an intention to obtain a four-year bachelor's degree, only 26
percent have such a degree nine years later.
On the other hand, 50 percent and 73 percent of those who start at
nonselective and selective four-year institutions, respectively, obtain a
bachelor's degree within nine years. The negative effect of starting postsecondary education at a community college remains even after the authors
adjust for selection bias by controlling for students' race, gender, age, ability
(measured by ACT scores) and family income.”
Long, Bridget Terry; and Kurlaender, Michal. "Do Community Colleges Provide a Viable Pathway to a Baccalaureate Degree?"
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (forthcoming).
What to do??
1) Clean up the data
2) Analyze the data to determine areas of need
3) Every student creates an 8- to 11-year plan and
progress is monitored at least annually
4) Have a credit-recovery plan
5) Grow your AVID program
6) Spread your AVID program school-wide
7) Other? Report out things that are already being done
in your district.