Student Success Milestones

Key Insights

As federal regulations and state regulations continue to emphasize student outcomes as measures of school district effectiveness, district administrators increasingly need to identify and eliminate barriers to student postsecondary success.

Specifically, district administrators seek key student success milestones (i.e., performance indicators) throughout grades K-12 that indicate whether a student is on track to reach college and career success. Districts can then track whether students achieve these milestones and develop targeted initiatives to reach students who fall behind.