Impact of C Average Policy on Extracurricular Participation

1
Impact of C Average Policyon Extracurricular
Participation
Richland School District One Office of Research
Evaluation August 11, 2004
2
C Average Policy

• Adopted January 2000 revised June 2000
• Participation in extracurricular activities in
  grades 6-12 is contingent on 2.0 GPA in the
  preceding semester
• 4 year phase in period
• 6-7, 9-10 for 2000-2001
• 6-11 for 2001-2002
• 6-12 for 2002-2003

3
Tracking Extracurricular Activities GPAs

• Student participation in extracurricular
  activities is recorded in the SASI database
• Athletic directors and team sponsors record
  participation directly into SASI or provide the
  information to the database specialist
• GPAs are stored in SASI, but were calculated by
  Research Evaluation for the C-Average Report

4
August 2004 Report

• Examines impact of the policy on athletes
• Examines participation in athletics
• Reviews athletic participation and GPA data for
  grades 7 and 8 in middle schools and grades 9-12
  in high schools
• Students excluded from participation for
  2003-2004 are not included in the sports
  presented
• Includes data for 2,131 team participants across
  14 sports

5
Impact of C Average Policy

• Compliance to the policy for 2004 Spring sports
• Ineligibility for 2004 Fall/Winter sports for
  students in grades 7-11
• Motivation for students to improve their GPAs

6
Sports Calendar
7
Number of Students Participating in Spring Sports
2004 with Fall 2003 GPA lt 2.0
8
Number of Students Participating in Spring Sports
2004 with Fall 2003 GPA lt 2.0
9
Compliance

• 2 of Spring 2004 athletes (N18) failed to meet
  the 2.0 GPA requirement
• Out-of-district transfers with GPA lt 2.0, but
  eligible according to SCHSL policy, allowed to
  participate on probation for one semester
• Non-diploma track special education students
• Appeals
• GPA Errors
• Note Entering 9th graders allowed to
  participate and given one semester to obtain 2.0
  GPA, but this only applies to Fall sports and not
  Spring sports

10
Sports Calendar
11
Spring 2004 GPAs of Students Participating in
Fall/Winter Sports 2003 (Grades 7-11)
(20)
(31)
12
Spring 2004 GPAs of Students Participating in
Fall/Winter Sports 2003 (Grades 7-11)
Students entering the 6th and 9th grades are
allowed to participate and given one semester to
obtain the required 2.0 GPA.
13
Ineligibility

• Ineligibility for Fall/Winter 2004 sports
• 299 Fall/Winter sport athletes in grades 7-11 had
  Spring GPAs lt 2.0
• Could participate in Fall/Winter 2004 sports if
• enter 9th grade in Fall 2004
• pull up GPA after attending summer school
• win an appeal

14
Motivation

• Approximately 18 of Fall/Winter athletes in
  grades 7-11 had a GPA below 2.0 at the end of the
  2003 Fall semester
• Of these athletes whose GPAs dropped below 2.0,
  35 had pulled their GPAs up to 2.0 by the end of
  the Spring semester (as compared with 29 of all
  students in grades 7-12 pulled their GPAs up to
  2.0 by the end of the Spring semester)

15
Richland School District OnePercent of Athletes
with Spring GPA lt 2.0
16
Richland School District OnePercent of Students
with Spring GPA lt 2.0
17
Richland School District OnePercent of Female
Students with Spring GPA lt 2.0
18
Richland School District OnePercent of Male
Students with Spring GPA lt 2.0
19
Richland School District OnePercent of Students
with Spring GPA lt 2.0
20
Richland School District OneNumber of Middle
School Males by Spring GPA
21
Richland School District OneNumber of High
School Males by Spring GPA
22
Richland School District OneNumber of Middle
School Females by Spring GPA
23
Richland School District OneNumber of High
School Females by Spring GPA
24
Spring Semester GPAs of Athletes

• Of the 2,131 middle and high school athletes with
  GPA data, 18 had GPAs less than 2.0
• The percentage of student athletes with GPAs less
  than 2.0 was significantly lower than the
  percentage of all students with GPAs less than 2.0