CCR Data and Transparency Quiz

That’s right! Minnesota earned the highest transparency score, with 26.25 points out of a possible 32. See the details in their transparency report here. 

That’s right. For the full details on this and other criteria Achieve used to award points in the transparency reports, please see the transparency report methodology.

If a state has made data available from the two most recent graduating cohort years (2014-15 and 2015-16), they earned points for this category. Any data older than two years did not earn points for timeliness. Postsecondary indicators have a longer lag time in reporting and a different definition of timeliness. For the full details on this and other point-awarding criteria, see the transparency report methodology.

That’s right. The 9th grade cohort is the best denominator to use when calculating college and career readiness outcomes because it counts all students who entered 9th grade together. Making calculations about 12th graders or high school graduates, for example, doesn’t account for students who have dropped out or fallen behind earlier in high school, leading to inflated figures.

Just ten states – Massachusetts, Ohio, Oregon, Washington, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Louisiana, Nevada, and Florida – report data about whether students are on track to graduate. See how all states stack up here. 

Nope. While there are small groups of states who report certain indicators the same way, only the adjusted cohort graduation rate can be compared across all states – and that’s because there is one mandated definition for how to calculate that number. Unfortunately, too many states collect data in ways that cannot be compared across states. Often the reason for this is that they only use data from a subset of students

You’re right. Just Delaware and Nevada earned a perfect score in the category evaluating whether states report data for all eight indicators of student readiness. Check out their complete state reports here.

Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, North Carolina, and Tennessee all report college- and career-ready assessment results, but they don’t break the results down by student subgroups. See which states report data by subgroups here.