NORTH COAST
THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2015
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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.
Jewell, which usually
graduates almost all students
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