high school diploma concurrently with either a 
postsecondary degree or up to two years of col-
lege credit. 
(9) UNDER-CREDITED.—The term ‘‘under-cred-
ited’’ means the student is a year or more behind 
the expected accumulation of credits or courses to-
wards an on-time graduation as determined by the 
relevant local and State educational agency’s high 
school graduation requirements for an on-time grad-
uation. 
(10) ON-TRACK STUDENT.—The term ‘‘on-track 
student’’ means a student that— 
(A) has accumulated the number of credits 
necessary to promote to the next grade, in ac-
cordance with State and district policies; and 
(B) has failed no more than one semester 
in English or language arts, mathematics, 
science, or social studies. 
SEC. 5. CALCULATING AND REPORTING ACCURATE GRAD-
UATION RATES. 
(a) CALCULATING GRADUATION RATES.—Upon the 
enactment of this Act, and every year thereafter, for all 
graduation rate requirements under the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965, every State educational 
agency, local educational agency, and school, using a 
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Statewide longitudinal data system with individual student 
identifiers, must implement— 
(1) the four-year adjusted cohort graduation 
rate formula; and 
(2) the five-year adjusted cohort graduation 
rate formula. 
(b) DISAGGREGATION.—The graduation rate shall be 
calculated at the school, local educational agency, and 
State levels in the aggregate and disaggregated by race, 
ethnicity, gender, disability status, migrant status, 
English proficiency, and status as economically disadvan-
taged, except that such disaggregation shall not be re-
quired in a case in which the number of students in a 
category is insufficient to yield statistically reliable infor-
mation or the results would reveal personally identifiable 
information about an individual student. 
(c) REPORTING GRADUATION RATES.—Upon the en-
actment of this Act, and every year thereafter, every State 
educational agency, local educational agency, and school 
must report annually, as part of the State, local edu-
cational agency, and school report cards required by sec-
tion 1111(h) of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
Act of 1965, each of the following: 
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(1) The four-year adjusted cohort graduation 
rate, in the aggregate and disaggregated by each of 
the subgroups described in subsection (b). 
(2) The five-year adjusted cohort graduation 
rate, in the aggregate and disaggregated by each of 
the subgroups described in subsection (b). 
(3) The number of students who have been re-
moved from the cohort as described in section 4(4), 
in the aggregate and disaggregated by each of the 
subgroups described in subsection (b). 
(4) The percentage of continuing students who 
have not graduated but are still in school. 
(d) USE OF INTERIM GRADUATION RATE.—States 
that do not have an individual student identifier longitu-
dinal data system shall be required to temporarily use an 
interim graduation rate calculation that meets the fol-
lowing conditions: 
(1) The calculation must measure or estimate 
the number of graduates compared to the number of 
students in the high school’s entering grade. 
(2) The calculation must not use dropout data. 
(3) The calculation must count as graduates 
only those students who receive a regular high school 
diploma as described in section 4(7). 
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