How are students moved out of the cohort?
By law, students can only be moved out of a cohort for certain reasons. Those reasons include: transfer to a public or non-public school (including a virtual school); withdrawal by parents for homeschooling; transfer out of state; withdrawal due to long term medical condition or death; incarceration or placement by court order; withdrawing from school before graduation, if the student is a high ability student who is a full-time student at an accredited institution of higher education during the semester in which the cohort graduates; missing, location undetermined and student enrolled in Indiana for less than one year; or missing, location undetermined, and student has been reported to Indiana Clearinghouse for Missing Children and Endangered Adults. For the class of 2010 and earlier, DOE-DM report (Dropout and Mobility) were used to identify students that should be moved out of the cohort (mobile students) or those who should be counted as dropouts. For the class of 2011 and beyond,
