2021 Indiana Code
Title 20. Education
Article 26. School Corporations: General Administrative Provisions
Chapter 15. Freeway School Corporation and Freeway School Program
20-26-15-7. Educational Benefits Required During Contract Period

Sec. 7. Except as provided under section 15 of this chapter (before its expiration), the minimum educational benefits that a freeway school corporation or a freeway school must produce under this chapter are the following:

(1) An average attendance rate that increases:

(A) not less than two percent (2%) each school year until the average attendance rate is eighty-five percent (85%); and

(B) one percent (1%) each school year until the average attendance rate is ninety percent (90%).

(2) A successful completion rate of the assessment program by meeting essential standards under the statewide assessment program or a locally adopted assessment program established under section 6(4) of this chapter that increases:

(A) not less than two percent (2%) each school year until the successful completion rate is not less than eighty-five percent (85%); and

(B) one percent (1%) each school year until the successful completion rate is not less than ninety percent (90%);

of the students in the designated grade levels under the statewide assessment program or the locally adopted assessment program that are grades contained in the freeway school corporation or freeway school.

(3) Beginning with the class of students who expect to graduate four (4) years after a freeway school corporation or a freeway school that is a high school obtains freeway status, a graduation rate as determined under 511 IAC 6.1-1-2(k) that increases:

(A) not less than two percent (2%) each school year until the graduation rate is not less than eighty-five percent (85%); and

(B) one percent (1%) each school year until the graduation rate is ninety percent (90%).

Except as provided under section 15 of this chapter (before its expiration), after a freeway school corporation or a freeway school has achieved the minimum rates required under subdivisions (1) through (3), the freeway school corporation or freeway school must either maintain the minimum required rates or show continued improvement of those rates.

[Pre-2005 Elementary and Secondary Education Recodification Citation: 20-5-62-7.]

As added by P.L.1-2005, SEC.10. Amended by P.L.242-2017, SEC.19; P.L.108-2018, SEC.1; P.L.140-2018, SEC.10.