Utah Admin. Code R277-419-9 - High School Completion Status
(1) An LEA
shall account for the final status of students who enter high school, grades
9-12, whether they graduate or leave high school for other reasons, using the
following decision rules to state the high school completion or exit status of
each student who leaves the Utah public education system:
(a) graduates are students who earn a basic
high school diploma by satisfying one of the options consistent with Rule
R277-705 or out-of-school youths of school age who complete adult education
secondary diploma requirements consistent with Rule R277-733;
(b) completers are students who have not
satisfied Utah's requirements for graduation but who:
(i) are in membership in twelfth grade on the
last day of the school year; and
(ii)
(A)
meet any additional criteria established by an LEA consistent with its
authority under Rule R277-705;
(B)
meet any criteria established for special education students under Utah State
Board of Education Special Education Rules, Revised, June 2016, and available
at: http://www.schools.utah.gov/sars/Laws.aspx and the Utah State Board of
Education;
(C) meet any criteria
established for special education students under Subsection
R277-700-8(5);
or
(D) pass a General Educational
Development or GED test with a designated score;
(c) continuing students are students who:
(i) transfer to higher education, without
first obtaining a diploma;
(ii)
transfer to the Utah Center for Assistive Technology without first obtaining a
diploma; or
(iii) age out of
special education;
(d)
dropouts are students who:
(i) leave school
with no legitimate reason for departure or absence;
(ii) withdraw due to a situation so serious
that educational services cannot be continued even under the conditions of
Subsection R277-419-5(3)(f)(ii);
(iii) are expelled and do not re-enroll in
another public education institution; or
(iv) transfer to adult
education;
(e) an LEA
shall exclude a student from the cohort calculation if the student:
(i) transfers out of state, out of the
country, to a private school, or to home schooling;
(ii) is a U.S. citizen who enrolls in another
country as a foreign exchange student;
(iii) is a non-U.S. citizen who enrolls in a
Utah public school as a foreign exchange student under Section
53G-6-707 in which case the
student shall be identified by resident status, J for those with a J-1 visa, F
for all others, not by an exit code;
(iv) dies; or
(v) beginning with the 2015-2016 school year,
is attending an LEA that is not the student's school of
enrollment.
(2)
(a) An LEA shall report the high school
completion status or exit code of each student to the Superintendent as
specified in Data Clearinghouse documentation.
(b) High School completion status or exit
codes for each student are due to the Superintendent by year end upload for
review.
(c) Except as provided in
Subsection (2)(d), an LEA shall submit any further updates of completion status
or exit codes by October 1 following the end of a student's graduating cohort
pursuant to Rule R277-484.
(d) An
LEA with an alternative school year schedule where the students have an
extended break in a season other than summer, shall submit the LEA's data by
the next complete data submission update, following the LEA's extended break,
as defined in Rule R277-484.
(3)
(a) The
Superintendent shall report a graduation rate for each school, LEA, and the
state.
(b) The Superintendent shall
calculate the graduation rates in accordance with applicable federal
law.
(c) The Superintendent shall
include a student in a school's graduation rate if:
(i) the school was the last school the
student attended before the student's expected graduation date; and
(ii) the student does not meet any exclusion
rules as stated in Subsection (1)(e).
(d) The last school a student attended will
be determined by the student's exit dates as reported to the Data
Clearinghouse.
(e) A student's
graduation status will be attributed to the school attended in the student's
final cohort year.
(f) If a student
attended two or more schools during the student's final cohort year, a
tie-breaking logic to select the single school will be used in the following
hierarchical order of sequence:
(i) school
with an attached graduation status for the final cohort year;
(ii) school with the latest exit
date;
(iii) school with the
earliest entry date;
(iv) school
with the highest total membership;
(v) school of choice;
(vi) school with highest attendance;
or
(vii) school with highest
cumulative GPA.
(g) The
Superintendent shall report the four-year cohort rate on the annual state
reports.
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