National Center for Education Statistics (2015). Dropouts and Completions – Local Education Agency Level: Total Other High School Completion Certificate (OHC) Recipients | Country: USA | State: Kentucky, 2006-2009. Data-Planet™ Statistical Ready Reference by Conquest Systems, Inc. [Data-file]. Dataset-ID: 017-018-007.
Dataset: An other high school completer is defined as a student who has received a certificate of attendance or other certificate of completion in lieu of a diploma during the previous school year and subsequent summer school. Note that other high school completer credentials are not awarded in every state.
Data are from the Local Education Agency Universe Survey conducted by the Common Core of Data (CCD), a program of the United States Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) that annually collects fiscal and other data about all public schools, public school districts, and state education agencies in the US.
The file contains numbers of high school diploma recipients and the student membership data that comprise the denominator for the Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate (AFGR), as well as dropout counts and the membership data that comprise the enrollment bases that are used in calculating dropout rates. The data are supplied by state education agency officials.
According to the CCD definition, a dropout is an individual who was enrolled in school at some time during the previous school year; was not enrolled at the beginning of the current school year; has not graduated from high school or completed a state- or district-approved education program; and does not meet any of the following exclusionary conditions: transfer to another public school district, private school, or state- or district-approved education program; temporary absence due to suspension or school-recognized illness; or death. The school year is the 12-month period of time from the first day of school (operationally set as October 1), with dropouts from the previous summer reported for the year and grade in which they fail to enroll. A school completer is an individual who graduated from high school or completed a state- or district-approved educational program upon receipt of formal recognition from school authorities. Note that some states report ungraded students and/or ungraded dropouts (students who are not assigned a regular grade designation). In data processing, NCES distributes ungraded student enrollments and ungraded dropout...