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NORTH COAST THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2015 3A County schools show mixed results on report cards Local school districts rated against state, similar districts By EDWARD STRATTON The Daily Astorian Clatsop County’s school districts had mixed results on the annual report cards re- leased by the Oregon Depart- ment of Education. The reports compared the c ounty’s ¿ Ye school districts — Astoria, Warrenton-Ham- mond, Knappa, Seaside and Jewell — to their own recent performance and with the state and demographically similar districts. Clatsop County’s high schools mostly improYed graduation rates during the 2013-14 school year, while comparing faYorably with similar districts in comple- tion, continuing education and dropout rates. The report cards, released Thursday, looked at the grad- uation, completion and drop- out rates for the class of 2014. The reports also tracked how many graduates from the class of 2013 furthered their education, as well as how many of the class of 2019 were on track to graduate in four years. Graduation rates Astoria High School re- ported a 65.6 percent four- year graduation rate for the class of 2014, a 3.6 percent decrease from the preYious year and more than 10 per- cent lower than the aYerage graduation rate of the 20 most similar schools in Oregon. Principal Lynn Jackson said the graduation num- bers are easily skewed in the coast’s smaller school dis- tricts . He said Astoria, based on preliminary reports, grad- uated 73 percent of the class of 2015. Jackson said he worries more about the reports he and staff create, since Asto- ria is small enough that they can look at what happened to eYery student who came through the halls of the high school, including the ¿ Ye or 10 students he said might stay in Astoria for a month or less. Warrenton (66.7 percent) and Knappa (65.9 percent) both increased four-year graduation rates in 2013-14 to Astoria’s leYel. Seaside (76.3 percent), outperformed the state and similar districts, with more than three-quarters of its class of 2014 graduat- ing in four years, and 87 per- cent completing high school in some other manner. All of the class of 2014 graduated in four years at Jewell, a tiny, timber-funded district with tiny graduating classes. Dropout rates tion, the best performance in the county and more than 10 percent better than the state aY- erage. Warrenton and Seaside high schools, which are used to leading the county in con- Astoria’s dropout rate in 2013-14 topped 5 percent, 40 percent higher than in com- parable districts. Warrenton and Seaside both decreased dropout rates, performing faYorably to other districts. Knappa decreased its dropout rate to 0.7 percent, less than one-third of its rate the pre- Yious year . Astoria, Seaside, Warren- ton and Knappa all Yastly outstripped their peers and the state in the share of stu- dents of the class of 2013 fur- thering their education after high school. About 70 percent of the classes of 2013 at Astoria and Knappa continued their educa- REPORT CARDS : For the full district re- port cards, visit http:// tinyurl.com/nbjh8v A new start tinuing education, saw 12 per- cent drops in their continuing education rates, with 54 to 57 percent of their classes of 2013 moYing on. 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