Academics
Clayton has a relatively low dropout rate and a high graduation rate; for the 2010–2011 school year, fewer than 1 percent of students dropped out compared to the Missouri state dropout rate of 3.4 percent. Since the passage of No Child Left Behind in 2001, Clayton met the requirements for adequate yearly progress in communication arts in 2004, 2006, and from 2009 through 2011, and in mathematics from 2006 through 2010.
| Year | Graduates | Cohort dropouts‡ | Graduation rate† | Total dropouts‡ | Dropout rate† |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 198 | 1 | 99.5 | 1 | .1 |
| 2010 | 205 | 3 | 98.6 | 3 | .4 |
| 2009 | 231 | 2 | 99.1 | 4 | .5 |
| 2008 | 186 | 5 | 97.4 | 1 | .1 |
| 2007 | 237 | 4 | 98.3 | 3 | .4 |
| 2006 | 211 | 6 | 97.2 | 7 | .8 |
| 2005 | 227 | 3 | 98.7 | 5 | .6 |
| 2004 | 209 | 8 | 96.3 | 3 | .3 |
| 2003 | 192 | 7 | 96.5 | 5 | .6 |
| 2002 | 189 | 13 | 93.6 | 11 | 1.3 |
| ‡ 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). |
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