Alto Elementary Staff
Dropout Prevention
Brighter Futures Start With You!
Whether you’re an educator, student, parent, or community member, Alto ISD is here to support you as we work to ensure that ALL students graduate prepared and ready for college, a career, or the military.
At the heart of becoming a successful adult is a high school diploma and an education that provides ample opportunities for children and youth to develop the skills needed to grow and mature into contributing, confident and happy adults in the community. While high school graduation rates are on the rise, dropping out of school persists as a problem that interferes with educational attainment. On average, one student drops out of school every nine seconds in the United States due to a variety of negative factors impacting students, families, and communities.
To keep students in school and to help them achieve, the Alto Independent School District has established major strategies for prevention, intervention, and recovery efforts. These include ensuring a safe and welcoming environment for students to obtain excellence in teaching and access to mentors, credit recovery programs, and the benefits of collaboration and the pursuit of positive outcomes for all of our students.
Walk for Success
Our goal is to increase the district’s graduation rate and reduce dropout rates. In an effort toward reaching our goal, AISD will host an annual Walk for Success in late August. Teams of volunteers will visit the homes of students who did not return to school in the fall to personally encourage them to continue their education and share with them the many programs AISD offers to help them graduate.
Interested community volunteers will be teamed up with campus personnel to conduct home visits. If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact Amber Middleton, Dropout Prevention and Intervention Coordinator, at 936-858-7115 or amiddleton@alto.esc7.net.
For more information about dropout prevention, please visit http://www.dropoutprevention.org/
Withdrawals, Leaver Forms, and Information
There are three ways to define students who were enrolled in the prior school year and who do not re-enroll the following school year. These include Leavers, Movers, and Dropouts.
Leavers are students who were served in grades 7 – 12 during the prior school year but have not enrolled in the district during the current school year. This includes students who graduate, receive a court-ordered GED, return to their home country, enroll in a school out of state, enter a private school, enroll in homeschooling, enter college, are expelled, removed by Child Protective Services, incarcerated in state or federal facilities, pass away, or drop out.
Movers are students who move or officially transfer from one Texas public school district to another and reported to PEIMS by another district. Movers include students who enroll in another Texas public school, earn a GED certificate, withdraw to enter a health care facility outside the district, or are incarcerated in a Juvenile Probation Office.
A dropout is a student who was enrolled in a public school in Grades 7-12 but does not return to public school or another educational setting the following Fall when they were expected to do so (i.e. the student was not expelled, did not graduate or receive a GED certificate, begin college or pass away). Students who have been coded with a mover code but cannot be tracked through the PEIMS/TSDS submission as enrolling in another Texas public school during the school-start window or obtaining a GED by August 31will be considered a dropout.
Note: The State Accountability System defines a dropout as a student who has not completed the criteria to earn a high school diploma or GED, while the Federal Accountability System defines a dropout as a student who has not completed the criteria to earn a high school diploma.
Resources
For more information about dropout prevention, please visit