The state school in the district may help the numbers. Report information through Regional Service Centers is inaccurate and often late. Special education - some teachers are not seeing problems with a child. Testing needs to be done to determine where the child should be placed in school. Data entry problems - low pay, high stress, massive system.
Software varies from district to district.
We need one software program to work with. Start tracking students when they enter the third grade. See where they are, either in college or if they have entered the employment world. Dropout tracking is impossible. Educators need to train, let them do it.