ESSA allows states flexibility in determining which school to hold accountable in the event that a student in the four-year cohort drops out, and additionally, was enrolled less than 50% of their last enrolled school year at the last school they attended. Two options exist:

          A)   Currently, we count students as a drop out at the
                 last school they attended. We could continue to do this.

          B)   We could look at the student’s four-year enrollment trends
                 and determine which school the student had spent the
                 majority of his/her time, in order to assign the school
                 of accountability.
 
 
Looking at the 2014-15 cohort, there were approximately 375 students who were enrolled less than 50% of their last school year. About two-thirds of these students would count at their last attended school regardless of whether Option A or Option B were employed. If Option B were selected, approximately 13% would be easily reassigned to another school, and about 1/5 of cases would require a deeper data analysis to determine which school would be accountable for their dropout.

The recommendation of the Accountability Work Group is that the state use Option B.

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