How will graduation rates be calculated next year?
In 2009 New Mexico will begin using a formula called the Four-Year Cohort rate. This rate represents the proportion of graduates that came from the pool of 9th graders 4 years earlier. Students who leave to another educational setting during that 4 year period are excused from the calculation (i.e. students who transfer to an out-of-state school, or to a private or home school). Similarly students who transfer into public high schools from another non-public school will join their respective cohort and be counted.
