Apparent retention rates for students in Years 10 to 12 by First Peoples status, Victoria Region, 2021

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Defintion: The apparent retention rate is an indicative measure of the number of full-time school students in a designated year level of schooling as a percentage of their respective cohort group in a base year. For example, the apparent retention rate for Year 10 – Year 12, 2017, is the number of students in Year 12, 2017 as a percentage of the number of students in the Year 10 cohort in 2015 (the base year) that cohort in Year 10 in 2015 (the base year), two years earlier. Part-time and ungraded students are not included in calculations of apparent retention rates. Data quality statement: It is not currently possible to calculate actual retention rates. There are a number of reasons why apparent rates may differ from actual rates, why they may differ between states and territories and between school sectors, and why apparent retention rates by state and/or sector may exceed 100 per cent. These reasons include, but are not limited to: students progressing at a faster or slower than the expected rate of one school year/grade per year, students changing between full-time or part-time study migration (interstate/international), students changing schools across state boundaries, students transferring between school sectors enrolment policies (contributing to different age/year level structures), age/year level requirements for leaving school, the availability of approved alternatives to senior schooling. *Data is for government school sector only "The Department of Education does not produce apparent retention rates (ARR) for geographic areas lower than DET Region. ARR at geographical areas smaller than DET regions (e.g. LGA, Postcode) can produce erratic and misleading results that are difficult to interpret or make use of. There are influencing factors such as: • The movement of secondary school students from one area to another • The level of provision/availability of secondary school education in such areas • Smaller enrolment numbers • The effect of relatively small changes in enrolment numbers which can create large rates and movement in such rates. The influences of such factors are mitigated at the state-wide and DET region level. Variability in the Aboriginal ARR is more pronunced given the smaller numbers particularly when looking at year level and geography. "

Source: Department of Education, August School CensusGet the dataCreated with Datawrapper