Graduation Rates Guidance – Final
USED 2017 ACGR Guidance
Superintendents, District Test Coordinators, and Accountability Directors,
The 2021 Graduation Rates have been posted to your district’s secure SharePoint folder. The rates may be accessed by using the following file path:
- Login to the SharePoint site (Superintendent’s Account only)
- Click to open your district’s folder
- Click to open the ORS directory
- Click to open the Accountability 2021 directory
- Click to open the Cohort 2016 Rates directory
In the Cohort 2016 Rates directory, you will find the following files for the district and schools within the district:
####District Grad Rate File 2016 Cohort – This file includes the 4-year cohort graduation rate, completion rate, dropout rate, and still enrolled rate for the district.
####School Grad Rate File 2016 Cohort – This file includes the 4-year cohort graduation rate, completion rate, dropout rate, and still enrolled rate for schools within the district.
#### Grad Rate Verification File 2016 Cohort – This file includes an accounting of all students who were assigned to the district and schools within the district for calculating graduation rates, in addition to all students that were included in the district’s final 2016 Cohort report in MSIS.
Additional Notes:
- For information on how graduation rates are calculated, please refer to the attached Graduation Rates Guidance document and the USED 2017 ACGR Guidance
- Districts should have entered and verified student-level data in MSIS prior to the summer activity deadline on October 27, 2020. This review is not an opportunity to change student records that have been certified in MSIS.
- You must be logged in to SharePoint at the Superintendent access level in order to access the files.
- If you have problems logging into SharePoint, contact the OTSS helpdesk at MDENET@mdek12.org.
Districts will have until 5:00 p.m., Thursday, March 4, 2021 to communicate any questions or concerns regarding graduation rate calculations to the MDE before final reports are compiled for public release at the March 18, 2021 State Board of Education meeting. If you have questions or concerns regarding the calculation of graduation rates or the posted files, please contact Cody Shumaker at cshumaker@mdek12.org for further assistance.