2000 District Accountability Cohort Definition

The 2000 district accountability cohort consists of all students, regardless of their current grade status, who were enrolled in a district school or placed by the district Committee on Special Education or a district official in an out-of-district placement on October 2, 2002 (BEDS day) and met one of the following conditions:

• first entered grade 9 (anywhere) during the 2000–01 school year (July 1, 2000 through June 30, 2001); or

• in the case of ungraded students with disabilities, reached their seventeenth birthday during the 2000–01 school year.

The State will exclude the following students when reporting data on the 2000 district accountability cohort (these students must be included in your file):

1. students who transferred to a school in another district or state or transferred to an approved alternative high school equivalency preparation program after BEDS day 2002;

2. students who left the U.S. and its territories after BEDS day 2002; and

3. students who died after BEDS day 2002.
    

Students who transferred into the district after BEDS day 2002 (October 2, 2002) will not be included in the 2000 district accountability cohort.

Students who move between district schools and out-of-district placements are not excluded from the cohort, as long as the transfers are the decision of the District Committee on Special Education or a district official.

Students who have dropped out may not be excluded from the 2000 cohort. A dropout is any student (regardless of age) who left your school prior to graduation for any reason except death and was not documented to have entered another school or high school equivalency preparation program.

The district graduate-rate cohort will include all students in the district accountability cohort plus any students excluded from the district accountability cohort solely because they transferred to a high school equivalency program.
 

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