2019 Spring Five Star Journal
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BOARD MESSAGE<br />
By Kathy Plomer, Board President<br />
Grad Requirements<br />
Board hosts community conversation on new graduation<br />
requirements for class of 2021 and beyond<br />
It’s spring and graduation season is nearly upon us! We will celebrate 11 graduations this<br />
May – five at our comprehensive high schools, two at our alternative campuses and four at<br />
our charter schools. All together more than 2,000 students will graduate from our schools this<br />
year. We are proud of their accomplishments and look forward to what is next for them!<br />
We’re #<strong>Five</strong><strong>Star</strong>Proud that our high schools are graduating more students than ever before.<br />
Adams 12 <strong>Five</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Schools four-year on-time graduation rate continues to rise, reaching 84.5<br />
percent for the Class of 2018. This is up more than 11 percentage points from 2010, making it<br />
the district’s highest graduation rate since the state changed how the rate is calculated. The<br />
<strong>Five</strong> <strong>Star</strong> District surpassed the state average of 80.7 percent, as reported by the Colorado<br />
Department of Education (CDE).<br />
Graduates of the Class of <strong>2019</strong> and next year’s Class of 2020 will be the last students to receive<br />
their diploma under the current graduation requirements. New graduation requirements for<br />
the Class of 2021 and beyond were developed in response to the Colorado State Legislature<br />
passing House Bill 07-1118 requiring the development of State High School Graduation<br />
Guidelines. The Graduation Guidelines include the following two components:<br />
• High school students will be required to achieve credits and coursework approved by<br />
the district’s board of education.<br />
-AND-<br />
• High school students must demonstrate college and career readiness in both English<br />
and mathematics by achieving a minimum score in at least ONE of the College and<br />
Career Readiness Demonstrations.<br />
On March 6, the Board of Education held a conversation with parents and the community about<br />
the new graduation requirements that are in place for the Class of 2021 (this year’s sophomores)<br />
and how the district will assure students meet them. The biggest change statewide with the<br />
<strong>Five</strong> <strong>Star</strong> <strong>Journal</strong>, <strong>Spring</strong> <strong>2019</strong> | 5
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