Tell Them From Me - School Completion Data

Personal Assets Leading to School Completion
Longitudinal studies that have followed children through to their school-leaving age have identified a number of protective factors related to school completion. These can be grouped into seven broad categories:

1.      Demographic: grade, gender, parents' level of education, educational possessions in the home, having an advocate at home or in the community;

2.      Academic: school grades, no grade repetition;

3.      Social engagement: a sense of belonging at school, participation in sports and clubs, the ability to make positive friendships at school;

4.      Institutional engagement: valuing schooling outcomes, school attendance, positive homework behaviours, and positive school behaviours;

5.      Intellectual engagement: interest and motivation, effort, and being appropriately challenged in class;

6.      Positive mental health: positive self-esteem, not experiencing anxiety or depression;

7.      Learning climate of the school: high expectations for success, has an advocate at school.

Probability of School Completion

Tell Them From Me includes measures of each of these protective factors, which are considered personal assets that increase a student's likelihood of completing school. Some assets are more important than others, based on the results of a number of longitudinal studies. The assets can be weighted accordingly to estimate each child's probability of school completion.

At Carman Collegiate, 71% of the students have a probability of school completion that is greater than 70%. A further 12% have a moderate chance of completion, with a probability of school completion between 50 and 70%. About 17% of the students have a probability of school completion that is less than 50%.

The average probability of school completion at Carman Collegiate is 74%, while the Canadian average is 78%.