recode.school

It shocks me that not all people associated with High Schools in Kentucky know of this report from Ky Center for Statistics. If you don't, they have made it highly clickable by using Tableau software to know more about how your high school is doing in terms of both predictive measures (ACT, etc.) as well as the (much more important) actual outcomes (like who went to, and persisted in, college).

Those outcomes as to Ky's college persistence rate are deep at the heart of Kentucky's challenge moving forward. Our current educational system gets kids to high school graduation at a decent clip, but our children fairly clearly do not have the critical skills they need to persist and succeed in their post-high school endeavors at high enough rates (we rank near the very bottom of states in college completion).

Thus, this is a data infrastructure, under the leadership of Dr. Kate Akers, that everyone working with older students in Kentucky needs to pay close attention to as it continues to improve.