CCR Data and Transparency Quiz

Incorrect. States using any of these options earned points for counting all students in Achieve’s transparency reports. For the full details on this and other criteria Achieve used to award points in the transparency reports, please see the transparency report methodology.

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. 

Correct! In the transparency reports, Achieve looked at not only whether a state reported data at all, but also whether that data was broken down by student subgroups, released in a timely manner, and reported in a way that counts all students.

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.

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.

The average score was just above a 50% - 16.5 out of 32 possible points.  See the full set of transparency reports here.

Not quite. Minnesota earned the highest transparency score, with 26.25 points out of a possible 32. See the details in their transparency report here.

Not quite. California, Louisiana, and New Hampshire only report data for one of the three postsecondary indicators, but Pennsylvania doesn’t report any. See full transparency reports here.