Clinton County- a SnapshotDropouts: One Dropout is too Many

High Cost of High School DropoutsThe average annual income for a high school dropout in 2005 was $17,299, compared to $26,933 for a high school graduate, a difference of $9,634 per year. -US Bureau of the Census, 2006

Trigger Question:

1. What are the factors, specific to Clinton County, that contribute to students dropping out of high school?

2. What factors inhibit our ability to solve this problem?

Stakeholders- Current Team Howard Comstock Director, Family Resource

Center Ruth Rockwell, Clinton County Substance

Abuse Coordinator Deb Kloosterman, Capital Area Community

Services Director Monica Spicer, Counselor, Ovid-Elsie High

School Karla Palmer, School Nurse St Johns High

School Larry Lloyd, Clinton County RESA Barb Baumann, LCC Julie Banfield, CCRESA, Special Projects

Other Possible Stakeholders

Parents Students Dropouts Community members Prisons Law enforcement Groups with resources

Session Outcomes To build a shared understanding of the current

status of student dropouts in Clinton County To build a shared understanding of the root

causes of student dropouts in Clinton County To build a shared language surrounding the

dropout phenomenon Based on most influential factors, recommend

actions that would reduce dropouts Create a covenant, or agreement to act, signed

at the highest levels of each institution

Key Information- Graduation Rates Bath Clinton DeWitt Ovid-Elsie Pewamo-

Westphalia St. Johns

86.75% 85.15% 94.01% 89.02% 100%

87.4%

Costs to Clinton County

Some questions to guide the process What do we know about students that

enter ninth grade and what happens to them?

What school indicators help predict who graduates and who doesn’t graduate in four years?

What is known about students who fall off-track?

What do we know about students that do not graduate?

Questions cont.

What schools are successfully graduating students? -Closing the Graduation Gap, 2008

What we learned so far

Student Suggestions Better Teachers Offer more Alternatives Tutoring Summer School More Supervision More school to home

communication Better mentoring between students

and teachers

More Successful if: Evening classes More GED

opportunities Allowing students to

return when older

Resources

http://www.k12.wa.us/research/pubdocs/pdf/dropoutreport2003.pdf

http://www.mea.org/dropouts/Dropout%20Hearing%20Press%20Release.pdf

THE Three Phases of SDD:

DiscoveryPhase I

Action Phase III

DesignPhase II

Content consultants,Experts,Task forces,Etc.

DiagnosisPhase II

Diagnostic Results

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Clinton County Resource Team Anand Ramaswami, Director of Strategic

Initiatives Jean Morciglio, Executive Director of

Extension and Community Education Alexander Christakis, Cogniscope Gayle Underwood, Cogniscope