With Our Analytics Product, Houston County School District Reduces Dropout Rate by 43%

June 26, 2024

At the end of the 2023-2024 school year, Standard Education customer Houston County School District in Georgia reported some impactful state data after reviewing their dashboards. Houston County School District reduced the number of dropouts this year by 43%, which represents about 200 additional students who graduated this year.

Houston County School District launched its initiative, Operation Graduation, last fall. Together, we developed dashboards that showcased attendance, grading, and withdrawals, a significant step in improving graduation rates and attendance following the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We were able to have real-time conversations about failure rates. It allows our admin and our support staff to work with teachers when they see hot spots pop up, or it allows us to be more proactive about it in the first place,” said Dr. Steven Hornyak, Director of District & School Effectiveness, Houston County School District. These dashboards were successfully implemented in October 2023. 

“We have always had the data available to us, but Standard Education's dashboards help us identify areas that need improvement. It's not that we didn't want to track this; we simply didn't have a way to do it. They wouldn’t have graduated without your help."

Houston County School District is located about two hours south of Atlanta and is the home to over 30,000 students across 38 schools in Georgia.

Improve your graduation rates with Standard Education

Standard Education’s core offering, Analytics, provides effortless data updates nightly that can be visualized in various dashboards, allowing you to stay informed of your students’ progress. We not only help you process your data, we lend a hand with how to put it into action within your district. We’ve helped districts identify and address inconsistent grading practices to improve pass rates across subject areas.

  • Activate real-time tracking of district demographics
  • Track which students are falling behind so you can intervene early to get them back on track
  • Our clickable dashboards let your drill into the most failed classes across content areas and grade levels.
  • Instant insights into which teachers have the most students failing

Empower your school district to proactively identify and address chronic absenteeism trends with ease using our real-time dashboards and coaching from our education experts to implement initiatives. Our dashboards can help you find those students who disengaged during COVID-19 and never returned to school.

Standard Education can help lessen the workload and empower your educators to take the lead with the right insights. Book a demo today.

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