Central VPA High School - Current Status - Academic and Discipline Issues

Academic and Discipline Issues

Central VPA has a higher graduation rate of 87.7 for 2010–2011, higher than the state average of 79.8. Central VPA also has a discipline incident rate of 3.3 percent. Since the passage of No Child Left Behind in 2001, Central VPA met the requirements for adequate yearly progress (AYP) in communication arts in 2006 and 2011; it met AYP in mathematics in 2011. In addition, more than 80 percent of Central VPA graduates enrolled in a public university in Missouri required remedial coursework in either English or mathematics.

Graduation and dropout rates by year
Year Graduates Cohort dropouts‡ Graduation rate† Total dropouts‡ Dropout rate†
2011 164 23 87.7 34 6.8
2010 149 37 80.1 33 5.1
2009 122 46 72.6 32 4.3
2008 107 42 71.8 39 5.7
2007 110 29 79.1 24 3.7
2006 86 19 81.9 85 15.8
2005 118 13 90.1 34 6.3
2004 93 9 91.2 14 2.8
2003 97 25 79.5 5 1.0
2002 114 40 74.2 20 3.4
‡ Cohort dropouts is the number of students from the grade level graduating for that year who dropped out.
† Graduation rate is calculated as number of graduates divided by number of graduates plus dropouts, multiplied by 100.
‡ Total dropouts is the number of students at the school who dropped out of school during that school year.
† Dropout rate is calculated as number of total dropouts/(September enrollment plus transfers in and minus transfers out + September enrollment)/2).
Incident rates by year
Year Enrollment Incidents‡ Incident rate†
2011 522 17 3.3
2010 694 16 2.3
2009 782 71 9.1
2008 688 38 5.5
2007 623 0 0.0
2006 584 20 3.4
2005 541 14 2.6
2004 507 8 1.6
2003 493 2 0.4
2002 616 4 0.6
‡ Total incidents is the number of incidents in which as a result a student was removed for ten or more consecutive days from a traditional classroom.
† Incident rate is calculated as enrollment divided by total incidents.

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