Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 49-1-601 (2026)
Assignment of student for purpose of calculating graduation rate
✓ current as of May 2026
- (a) A student who has not attended the same high school within an LEA for at least sixty (60) school days of the most recent school year of enrollment and who has exited high school without a regular high school diploma and without transferring to another high school that grants a regular diploma may, for the purpose of calculating graduation rate, be assigned to the high school at which the student was enrolled for the greatest proportion of school days while enrolled in grades nine through twelve (9-12) pursuant to procedures developed by the department.
- (b) Students that earn an alternate academic diploma pursuant to § 49-6-6001, shall be included in the four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate pursuant to procedures developed by the department.
Added by 2017 Tenn. Acts, ch. 177, s 6, eff. 4/24/2017.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1998–2004 · leading case: The City of Humboldt v. J.R. McKnight (Tenn. Ct. App. 2004).
The City of Humboldt v. J.R. McKnight (Tenn. Ct. App. 2004). “( Tenn. Code Ann. § 49-1-601 ); e) the state is to designate a management information system to be used by the local school systems to report information to the state for internal control and system management ( Tenn.”
Willis v. Franklin Co. Bd. of Educ. (Tenn. Ct. App. 1998). “Acts 19 , 23 (codified at Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 49-1-601 , -608 & 610 (1996)).”
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