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Ready and Successful Students

All students have exemplary graduation rates

93.5% 

SY24 Actual


SY23 Actual
92.6%

Objective Description

The Howard County Public School System (HCPSS) has created a systematic and comprehensive approach to increase graduation rates by providing more options for students to connect to and become invested in academics and school-based activities. Schools are focusing their work on ensuring student attendance, academic achievement, acceptance/belonging and access to individualized programs. In addition, HCPSS is engaging family and community members to promote clear avenues from middle and high school to college and career success.

Trend Analysis

The Class of 2023 experienced COVID-19 interruptions in their freshman and sophomore years of high school and returned to a more typical school year in their junior year. The 2023 graduation rates are being compared to 2019 statewide, as 2023 graduation requirements were more comparable to those before the COVID-19 pandemic. Some waivers still in place may have positively impacted graduation rates for the Classes of 2020-2022. The Maryland state’s four-year 2023 cohort graduation rate was 85.8%, down from 86.3% in 2022 and 86.9% in 2019. Of the 4,564 HCPSS students who entered high school in the fall of 2019-20 (Class of 2023), 92.57% graduated in four years, reflecting a decrease of 0.21 percentage points from 92.78% for the Class of 2019. The HCPSS Class of 2023 dropout rate was 4.38%, reflecting a decrease of 0.14 percentage points from 4.53% for the Class of 2019. The graduation rate for students with Limited English Proficiency increased by 13.11 percentage points from 47.22% for the Class of 2019 to 60.33% for the Class of 2023. The graduation rate for Black/African American students increased by 1.56 percentage points from 88.74% for the Class of 2019 to 90.30% for the Class of 2023.

Strategies


Source: Howard County Public School System

References

Target = 91.7

Detailed Analysis


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