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Appendix 20: High School Cohort Definitions<br />

NOTE: For 2006 accountability total cohort graduation rate reporting purposes, students<br />

reported with a Reason for Ending Enrollment Code 8338: Incarcerated student, no<br />

participation in a program culminating in a regular diploma will be removed from the cohort and<br />

will not be included in the accountability graduation rate calculation for the school and district in<br />

which the student last attended high school.<br />

2006 School Total Cohort for Graduation Rate Non-Accountability Purposes<br />

General Definition<br />

The 2006 school total cohort for graduation rate non-accountability consists of all students,<br />

regardless of their current grade level, whose date of first entry into grade 9 (anywhere) was<br />

during the 2006–07 school year (July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007). For information on how<br />

to determine the date of first entry into grade 9 for ungraded students with disabilities, see the<br />

definition of data element “First Date of Entry into Grade 9” in Chapter 7: Data Elements<br />

Definitions.<br />

Students Included in the 2006 School Total Cohort for Graduation Rate Non-<br />

Accountability Purposes<br />

Students who fit the general definition above and whose last regular enrollment record was in<br />

a district school (enrollment of one day or longer). This includes students who dropped out or<br />

transferred to an approved AHSEP or HSEP program; that is, students with one of the<br />

following Reason for Ending Enrollment Codes:<br />

136 — Reached maximum age and not earned a diploma<br />

289 — Transferred to an AHSEP or HSEP program<br />

340 — First-time dropout<br />

391 — Long-term Absence<br />

408 — Permanent Expulsion<br />

425 — Left school, no documentation<br />

357 — Left school, previously counted as a dropout<br />

306 — Transferred to other GED Program<br />

8338 — Incarcerated student, no participation in a program culminating in a regular<br />

diploma<br />

Students Excluded from the 2006 School Total Cohort for Graduation Rate Non-<br />

Accountability Purposes<br />

Students with the following Reasons for Ending Enrollment Codes on their last regular<br />

enrollment record in the school:<br />

153 — Transferred to another school in this district or to an out-of-district placement<br />

170 — Transferred to another NYS public school outside this district with documentation<br />

204 — Transferred to a NYS nonpublic school with documentation<br />

221 — Transferred to a school outside NYS with documentation<br />

238 — Transferred to homebound instruction provided by this district<br />

255 — Transferred to home-schooling by parent or guardian<br />

299 Student Information Repository System Manual for 2010–11 Version 6.2

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