Individual Indicator: Grade Retention
Over 12% of students who were chronically absent in 2010-11 had been retained at some point in the past compared to only 7% of students with a lower absence rate.
This bar graph shows the percent of students at Roger Williams in the 2010-11 school year who have ever been retained a grade level in any previous year since 2004-05. While only 7% of students with low or moderate absenteeism in 2010-11 were ever retained, this number increases for students with chronic absenteeism, for a percentage of over 12%.
Grade retention is often determined locally, at the school or district level. Although we don’t have any information on Roger Williams' retention policy nor information on the retention policies of the elementary schools that RW students formerly attended, it still appears as an relevant indicator of attendance, as indicated by the graph.
