These rates are calculated for students who graduated 4 years after entering high school as freshmen, called "4-year cohort".
Graduates are students who graduate with a standard diploma. Students who get a GED or a Certificate of Completion are considered
"non-graduates" in this computation of the graduation rate.
Data Sources
New Mexico Public Education Department, Jerry Apodaca Education Building, 300 Don Gaspar, Santa Fe NM 87501. Phone: (505)827-5800.
Website: www.ped.state.nm.us.
The rate of students who began high school as a 9th grader and who then proceeded to graduate from high school 4 years later.
In the case of transfers between school districts, a student's outcome was proportionally distributed among all school districts
contributing to that student's outcome.
How We Calculated the Rates
Numerator:
The number of students that graduated from high school. Technically, the total of all students and student fractions (in the
case of transfers) for high school graduates, accumulated for each school district.
Denominator:
The total number of students. Technically, a count of all students enrolled for any period of time during the 4 year period
ending in the year shown.
Date Indicator Content Last Updated: 12/13/2011
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