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Delivering Success: The GRAD Partnership Year Two Results
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Our two year impact results are in: Middle and high schools implementing student success systems with the support of GRAD Partnership continue to achieve substantial progress in reducing chronic absenteeism and course failure rates. Five years after the pandemic, schools nationwide are still struggling with chronic absenteeism and a slow academic recovery, but these results offer a path forward.
On average, schools supported by the GRAD Partnership had chronic absenteeism rates exceeding the national average at the end of the 2021–22 school year; after two years of implementation, their average chronic absenteeism rates fell below the estimated national rate for the 2023–24 school year.
Delivering Success: The GRAD Partnership Two Year Impact Results details the remarkable progress among schools that began implementing student success systems in 2022-23 and continued using them through the 2023-24 school year.
Over two years:
- The average chronic absenteeism rate declined from 29% to 21%, a 28% reduction.
- The average course failure rate declined from 31% to 20%, a 32% reduction.
In ninth-grade classrooms, where early intervention is especially critical, results also showed meaningful improvement:
- The average ninth-grade chronic absenteeism rate declined from 31% to 26% over two years, a 14% reduction.
- The average ninth-grade course failure rate declined from 32% to 22% over two years, a 31% reduction.
Read the full report for more results, including measures of implementation that demonstrate the GRAD Partnership’s ability to help schools translate research-based practices into meaningful, measurable progress.
About the GRAD Partnership
The GRAD Partnership is a collaborative, national effort partnering with schools, districts and communities to use high-quality student success systems so that schools are empowered to graduate all students ready for the future. Our work represents the culmination of more than a decade of research and efforts to develop and validate student success systems. Learn more at gradpartnership.org.
