[Updated to accommodate comments from Sept. 25 Academy Board affair and to actual 2013 statewide dropout rate.]
On-time graduation for Arlington Accessible Schools' Class of 2014 was up from a year afore and outperformed the accompaniment average, while the county's dropout amount connected to decline, according to new data.
On-time graduation for acceptance that entered ninth brand in the abatement of 2010 stood at 92 percent in Arlington, up from 91.3 percent for the Class of 2013 and academy than the 89.9-percent amount for all 94,700 Virginia acceptance in the Class of 2014, according to abstracts appear Sept. 24 by the Virginia Department of Education.
It took "a lot of acceptable work, abnormally by our accessory principals, to accomplish this a reality," Administrator Patrick Murphy said at the Sept. 25 Academy Board meeting. "We should be actual proud."
Arlington's all-embracing dropout amount beneath to 3.8 percent, bottomward from 5.7 percent in 2013 and continuing a bottomward trend from 2010, back it stood at 11.4 percent and back Arlington academy admiral began demography stronger accomplish to action the dropout rate.
The accompaniment dropout amount for 2014 was 5.4 percent, bottomward from 7 percent a year before.
Among Arlington students, graduation ante for the Class of 2014 stood at 92.6 percent for females and 91.5 percent for males. Amid capricious indigenous and ancestral groups, graduation ante were 98.7 percent for white students, 98.4 percent for mixed-race students, 90.4 percent for atramentous students, 89.1 percent for Asian acceptance and 83.3 percent for Latino students. Graduation ante were up in all categories except for Asian students.
Among the county's three primary accessible aerial schools, graduation ante were 99.5 percent at Washington-Lee, 98.4 percent at Yorktown and 97.6 percent at Wakefield. Dropout ante were 1.2 percent at Wakefield, 0.3 percent at Yorktown and aught at Washington-Lee.
Despite the improvement, apropos were aloft that not all Arlington acceptance were administration in the success.
"There are some parents who feel a bit larboard out by those numbers," said Academy Board affiliate Nancy Van Doren.
Murphy responded that while "we accept absolutely a bit of assignment to do" to advance after-effects for acceptance in some groups – like English-language learners and special-education acceptance – that shouldn't booty abroad from the about absolute drive apparent by the academy arrangement as a whole.
"Six years ago, we had 200 acceptance bottomward out," a amount that alone to 55 in the best contempo bookish year, the administrator said.
Students whose built-in accent is not English anniversary for two-thirds of those drop-outs. "That, for me, is area we charge to focus allotment of our energy," Murphy said.
Since 2011, accessible aerial schools accept had to accommodated an anniversary criterion for graduation to acquire abounding accreditation from the Virginia Department of Education. Accompaniment apprenticeship admiral clue acceptance so the abstracts anniversary for apprentice advancement amid localities.
Virginia's on-time-graduation amount of 89.9 percent for 2014 was up from 89.1 percent a year before. Accompaniment apprenticeship admiral said that, for the aboriginal time, added than bisected of Virginia's admission seniors (50.6 percent) in 2014 becoming an advanced-studies diploma, up from 49.7 percent in 2013.
State Administrator of Accessible Instruction Steven Staples said casual the 50-percent beginning represented "a watershed event" in efforts to access academy and career readiness.
Full abstracts can be begin on the Web armpit at www.doe.virginia.gov.