Achievement First - Myths and Facts | We-Can

This is a great website (I wish I had seen it a month ago)

Achievement First - Myths and Facts | We-Can: "AF’s statement that 100% of its students have been accepted to college can give the false impression that all of its students reach graduation. In reality, Amistad High School has experienced a 50% student attrition rate as its classes have moved from 9th grade to 12th grade, resulting in small numbers of graduates.

Information from the Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) reveals that Achievement First has consistently experienced high rates of attrition at its Amistad High School. The 12th grade classes at Amistad High School in 2010 and 2011 both lost over 50% of their class sizes from the 9th grade. The 2011 class had 47 students in 9th grade and only 23 students in 12th grade. In 2010, the first year that AF graduated a high school class, the graduating class decreased from 45 students in 9th grade to only 22 students in 12th. When factoring in attrition that occurred as those classes went from 8th grade to 9th grade, the attrition rate increases to 60%."

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