Fewer and fewer college students are touring the normal path to a highschool diploma in Leon County.
The standard path to commencement, per the Florida Division of Schooling, is for college kids to move 24 class credit and move in class exams, which embody the FSA English and Algebra I Finish of Course examination.
TR has beforehand reported that the normal path numbers have dropped from 80.3% to 59.0% throughout the Leon County faculty district over the past 4 years.
Nonetheless, new knowledge offered by Leon County Schools reveals double digit drops in conventional commencement charges in any respect 5 main excessive faculties in Leon County over the past 4 years.
Regardless of these drops, LCS reported a 92.3% commencement charge in 2018/19.
The desk under reveals the numbers for Leon County’s 5 main excessive faculties.
Whereas all faculties noticed double-digit drops, Godby High College reported the most important drop in the normal path to commencement charges. In 2015/16, roughly 57.8% of scholars graduated by way of the normal path. 4 years later that quantity was reported to be 33.0% – a drop of 24.8%.
Why the sudden drop in the strategy by which college students are graduating?
LCS continues to be not answering questions from TR, nevertheless a Fb submit right now by LCS launched a brand new time period to the commencement charge course of – “acceptable pathway.”
The Fb submit acknowledged, “Working with each particular person to assist them discover the suitable pathway for his or her success has allowed extra college students than ever to graduate from highschool.”
All the submit is included under.
What’s an “acceptable pathway”? Is it comparable to the “conventional pathway”?
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