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1. 1
   What you see4-year cohort graduation rate

   96.3%

   the four-year cohort graduation rate: the share of a 9th-grade entry cohort that graduated within four years.

   vs. peers

   100th percentile

   vs. citywide

   96th percentile

   unit

   percent

   direction

   higher is better

2. 2
   How it was computedvalue = published 4-year cohort graduation rate (district file, indexed by cohort entry year; state file, indexed by report year)

   1. Read the district's graduation CSV (all cohorts, 4/5/6-year rates, by subgroup) and store by cohort year.
   2. The state's Future Ready file also carries a 4-year rate for every school including charters; it is stored under the same key but indexed by report year.

   Citywide percentile, reconstructed right now

   Among 49 default-included schools with a value for this metric, year, and subgroup, this school has a higher value than 46. Midrank rule: (46 + 0/2) / (49 − 1) = 0.958.Stored: 0.958. ✓ matches

   How percentiles are computed · How peer groups are chosen

   Peer percentile, reconstructed right now

   Peer group: up to 40 of the demographically nearest schools among Elementary-Middle-High / lottery / charter schools; 9 of 13 peers have a value this year. This school is above 9 of them. Midrank: (9 + 0/2) / (10 − 1) = 1.000; stored 1.000. ✓ matches

   The peers and their values (9)

   Peer school	Value
   TACONY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL	95.2%
   MARIANA BRACETTI ACADEMY	95.2%
   FIRST PHILADELPHIA CHARTER	90.9%
   ESPERANZA ACADEMY CHARTER	90.5%
   HARDY WILLIAMS ACADEMY CHARTER	88.9%
   MASTERY CHARTER-THOMAS CAMPUS	87.0%
   COMMUNITY ACADEMY OF PHILA	75.0%
   NEW FOUNDATIONS CHARTER SCHOOL	73.9%
   PHILADELPHIA ACADEMY	71.4%

   Note: stored percentiles are computed by a batch script after loads; a difference from the live reconstruction means a newer load changed the comparison set and the batch has not been re-run.

   Evidence: metric tree: 4-year cohort graduation rate

3. 3
   The stored cellThe stored cell

   table

   philly_school_year_metrics

   value

   96.3

   denominator

   null (not published)

   suppressed

   false

   citywide_percentile

   0.9583

   comparison_group_percentile

   1.0000

   source_load_id

   8ba7d9e6-a94a-4a6f-9e9b-ceb2707d43de

   Evidence: data model overview

4. 4
   The load that wrote itWritten on 2026-09-08 by futurereadypa_performance.ts

   source id

   futurereadypa_performance_2024-25

   file URL

   https://futurereadypa.org/home/getdatafile?id=60

   SHA-256 of the file read

   a16ffc40e7d1851d5ac83dd63d8ca5348ead064e029bade593a0182ed085bc92Copy hash

   bytes

   5,113,152

   year covered

   2024-25

   code commit

   c19ea6ec845c65bcc40eb49644be1c7e67b05f25

   To confirm you have the same file: download it from the URL above, then run shasum -a 256 <downloaded file> Copy command — the output should equal the hash above. If the publisher has since replaced the file, the hashes will differ, which is itself useful to know.

   Evidence: loader script · first-fetch findings for this file · source registry

5. 5
   The publisher's fileFuture Ready PA Index datafile, 2024-25

   Pennsylvania Department of Education (Future Ready PA Index). The state's school-level accountability indicators for every public school in Pennsylvania — test proficiency, growth (PVAAS), persistent attendance, graduation — by subgroup.

   format

   XLSX (wide: one column per measure × subgroup)

   join key

   AUN + Schl (state IDs), mapped to ULCS via the Master School List

   landing page

   https://futurereadypa.org/Home/DataFiles

   • The chronic-absenteeism column exists in the file but is empty for individual Philadelphia schools; the state reports persistent attendance instead.
   • Publishes no student counts for the attendance measure.
   • Its 90%-attendance figure does not match the district's for the same schools (see the cross-publisher check).
6. 6
   How it was checkedChecks: 2 passed

   • ✓ passedBase case (district file, 2021-22 cohort): 75 of 75 unsuppressed cells match
   • ✓ passedCompleteness

   Checked at ±0.5: 0 mismatches, 0 cells served but absent from the file, 1 in the file but not served (ALL, n/a, latest year).

   Evidence: Base case (district file, 2021-22 cohort) · Completeness

7. 7
   Assumptions & caveatsAssumptions and caveats

   • The two publishers' rows never collide on (school, year, subgroup) because they use different year conventions; readers must check which convention a given year follows.

   • Two year conventions coexist under one key — a known v1 wart flagged for normalization.

   Algorithms involved: Citywide and peer-group percentiles, Peer groups: 40 nearest neighbors on demographics