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Still, there are a handful of stu-
dents who do not end up gradu-
ating, and the reasons for this are
complex and may be different
than many would think.
“Kids don’t get to their senior
year and drop out. That’s rare,”
Grzeskowiak said. “When that
happens, it’s usually because of a
family issue. A parent falls ill and
the child has to drop out and take
care of the family.”
Another issue that can occur
is how the state tracks gradua-
tion rates, which is different from
other states. In Texas, if a stu-
dent moves to a high school, the
school is responsible for the stu-
dent to graduate. However, if the
student moves away, the school
is no longer responsible for the
student.
Oregon is different. When a
student moves away, the school
is still responsible for the stu-
dent until the school can prove
that they enrolled in another
program. But if the district can’t
prove that the student enrolled in
another program, it counts as a
dropout for the school.
“Somehow, when they’re mov-
ing, we lose connection,” Grz-
eskowiak explained. “If they’ve
had an enrollment in your school,
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and aren’t registered somewhere
else, they’re your dropout. It
happens more often than people
think.”
That’s not to say the district
simply gives up after a student
moves away unexpectedly.
“Our administrators and
councilors have done a very good
job of tracking kids through so-
cial media to find out where they
are, what they’re doing, and if
they’re not doing something aca-
demic, working to get them in a
program so they can get complet-
ed,” Grzeskowiak said. “If they
can complete through us, great.
If we can get them completed
through job corps, community
college, or get enrolled in another
school district, great. They’ll be-
come a completer for somebody.”
With a local economy that is
seasonal, students moving in and
out of the district is common.
“We have a group of kids that
start with us in the fall, they’re
here with us until Christmas,
then they leave because they’re
parents are working a seasonal
job,” Grzeskowiak said. “And then
they come back at spring break.
That’s about five percent of our
population. They cycle out twice
a year.”
Harklerode added, “The pre-
vious year, we finished with
610 students at the elementary
school, but we had almost 750
students go through the school at
some point.”
And every time a student
moves, the more difficult it is for
them to graduate on-time.
“For them, it’s a continuity is-
sue,” Grzeskowiak said. “They try
and pick up at another school,
and then they’re leaving in the
middle of another term to come
back here. If a kid never moves,
they have an 85 percent chance of
graduating. If they move once, it
drops to 50 percent. If they move
twice, it’s down to 25 percent.”
But one of the greatest prob-
lems with graduation is baked
into the system itself, as schools
across the nation have shifted to
college preparedness.
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“When I first started teaching
here, we had kids that graduat-
ed as juniors,” Grzeskowiak said.
“They were graduating early be-
cause they had a total number of
credits.”
But a push for students to be-
come “college ready” in the past
few decades has increased the
number of classes students are
required to take.
“It takes 24 credits to graduate,”
Grzeskowiak explained. “Ideal-
ly, six credits every single year.
Freshmen have a requirement for
math, English, science, health, so-
cial studies and then one elective.
Next year, as a sophomore, they
have one less required class. For
our freshmen, six of their seven
periods are pretty much prede-
termined. For sophomores, five
of their seven periods a day are
predetermined. By the time they
get to be a senior, they have per-
sonal finance economics and a
fourth year of English. Those are
the only two prescribed classes.”
The process seems simple
enough: start your high school
career taking the prescribed
classes, and then finish it up ex-
ploring a wide variety of electives
that could help you choose which
direction you want to take in life.
But in reality, things don’t al-
ways work as planned, as Algebra
1 is the most failed class by stu-
dents.
“If you came in as a freshman
and you have six prescribed class-
es, and you failed two or three of
them, you have to retake those
required classes in the next two
years,” Grzeskowiak said.
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