Glenbrook High School District 225 board members Monday approved an agreement with Oakton Community College to share academic achievement data for students taking dual credit courses.
The agreement would help both District 225 and Oakton assess what kind of students are successful in the District’s 17 dual credit courses, which Oakton administers and which allow students to take college-level coursework in topics like Hebrew, medical technology and higher mathematics.
“If we have a sense of what their prior high school involvement was like, how many dual credit courses, and then to see how well they’ve done in those courses we’ll have a better idea of what students to market these courses to,” Superintendent Charles Johns said.
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According to board documents, the board hopes the use of this data will allow the district to further expand dual credit opportunities. District 225 will only share aggregate data with Oakton, and students’ individual data will not be released.
Under state law, community college credits count toward four-year degrees at all state colleges and universities, Johns said, while Oakton also has credit-sharing agreements with several private universities.
“It is a tremendous opportunity to gain credit toward graduation, to gain credit toward college graduation, while living at home, while being supported by your parents, so you can start college with a leg up,” Johns said.
Joshua Irvine is a freelance reporter for Pioneer Press.