Graduation Rates

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NPS Four Year Graduation Rates

 

GRADUATION RATE

The Graduation Rate indicator looks at the percentage of students who graduated from high school with a diploma in four or five years.

 

What is being measured?

Four-year graduation rate – How many students graduated in four years or less?

 

Why is this important?

Almost all jobs require skills and education beyond a high school diploma. Students receiving a high school diploma are more likely to pursue postsecondary opportunities and obtain high paying, in-demand jobs.

 

Questions to ask

What are the reasons students are not graduating? What is my school doing to grow the number of students who graduate? Which schools, similar to my child’s, are doing better? What are they doing?

 

Four Year Graduation Rate

 

NPS GRADUATION RATES

January 7, 2024

Annually NPS reports its graduation rate to Department of Education & Early Development (DEED). This information provides DEED information to further support school. NPS graduation rate is one set of data to help redesign, adapt programs that need strengthening.

 

Every year, Nome Public Schools (NPS) and community celebrate each student achievement by earning a high school diploma. Each year, we will work to provide each student with knowledge, skills, aptitude and integrity to be success in the world they choose. All students – including students with disabilities and English Language Learners.

 

Student success within our schools is contributed to multiple factors: a strong system all-around focused on: social-emotional learning, access to technology, and data monitoring to name just a few. NPS is working towards a strong support system for teachers and staff – including: recruitment and retention of educators, mentoring/coaching, professional development, curriculum and instruction development, clear concise communication and implementation of policies.  

 

Student success comes with strong leadership, collaboration and a solid strategic process.  This school year 2023-2024, NPS become involved with a strategic process through a grant, Raising The Bar. We have collaborative opportunities to make a difference as we work shoulder-to-shoulder with seven other school districts in building our schools.

 

Sustaining Understandings: How NPS can improve graduation rate?

1.       Instructional mentoring/coaching leads to teacher and employee connectedness, and can serve as an adult-level Early Warning System;
2.       Independent Learning Wednesdays/Early Release: NPS values the Professional Learning Communities (PLC) process with TIME and SUPPORT; honors teacher professionalism;
3.      Our responsibility to be sensitive, understanding and aware of the community experience has never been higher; we must seek and input and respond;
4.      Priority standards aren’t just for pandemics! They are for teacher-developed, formative assessments as well;
5.      Prove/Improve: Monitoring artifacts and evidence against clear performance standards is a district responsibility. Data calendar that is aligned across schools and departments informs what is reported to the School Board as part of a strategi plan;
6.       Investments in support staff (secretaries, educational assistants, etc).