BALDWIN COUNTY SCHOOLS Graduation Rate Increase

BALDWIN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT ...At a glance 6 schools 2 primary schools 2 elementary schools 1 middle school 1 high school Georgia College Early College Early Learning Center College and Career Academy 848 employees 5400 students(P-12) Budget: $42,500,000 Home of Georgia College and State University, Central Georgia Technical College and Georgia Military College BALDWIN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT ...At a glance

BALDWIN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL ...Successes and Celebrations GRADUATION RATE: increased 22.2 percent over a four year span from 66.6% to 88.8%, LITERARY TEAM: Region Champs! CONCERT BAND: all superior ratings at Large Group Performance Evaluation. ATHLETICS: Boys XC, Wrestling, Boys Basketball & Boys Track team: Region Champs! BALDWIN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL ...Successes and Celebrations

“Top 10” Strategies to Help Increase Graduation Quarterly monitoring of seniors and off-track seniors with counselors, administrators, social worker, and superintendent (and/or assistant superintendent, deputy superintendent) Bi-monthly conversation with SILT to address seniors/off-track seniors to find effective strategies and interventions Individualized graduation plans for all students to meet their specific needs with a focus on off- track students. Mandatory parent and student meetings with principal and counselors. Credit recovery opportunities before school, after school, during school (IF), and saturday school (2X monthly) “Top 10” Strategies to Help Increase Graduation

“Top 10” Strategies to Help Increase Graduation 6. Assign teacher advocates to severe at-risk students 7. Involve school level and district level Special Education staff to help in the utilization of PEC waivers 8. Reviewed IEP plans to ensure students were meeting graduation requirements. 9. Summer school opportunities for students with extended summer hours through Foothills Charter School .evening school. 10. Community and staff participation in the Martin Luther King Community Student Drop Out roundup. Social worker and attendance officer followed up with students who had dropped out or were not attending school. “Top 10” Strategies to Help Increase Graduation

Instructional Focus Time Added in the Bell Schedule This additional 53 minutes is added to the school day schedule Monday-Thursday. Friday it is used for Advisement Focus on Content Mastery and Differentiation Students who are labeled as “severe” on the monitoring list attend credit recovery focus Instructional Focus Time Added in the Bell Schedule

Graduation Rate Increase 2017: 88.8 2016: 86.1 2015: 79.8 2014: 66.6