Student Promotion Rate (PI4924)

This metric is intended to capture the percentage of students that have continued from one grade to the next—for example, from the third to the fourth year of secondary school. For instance, if 100 students had completed their third year of secondary school as of the end of the previous reporting period and 95 have continued to the fourth year of secondary school as of the beginning of the reporting period, the student promotion rate is 95%, calculated as 95/100 × 100.

This metric differs from Student Dropout Rate (PI9910), which captures the rate at which students drop out during the reporting period.

This metric aligns with the UNESCO Institute for Statistics Indicator “Promotion Rate by Grade (PR)” (http://uis.unesco.org/sites/default/files/documents/education-indicators-technical-guidelines-en_0.pdf). This metric can be used as an input to calculate “Transition Rate” between schooling levels (for example, from primary to secondary school)

This metric is multi-dimensional with regard to the five dimensions of impact. In some contexts, this metric can serve as an indicator of whether the outcome being sought by an investor or organization is occurring (the WHAT dimension of impact). It may also help measure the HOW MUCH Scale dimension, which helps estimate the number of the targeted stakeholders experiencing the outcome. For more on the alignment of IRIS metrics to the five dimensions of impact, see IRIS+ and the Five Dimensions of Impact (https://iris.thegiin.org/document/iris-and-the-five-dimensions/). No single metric is sufficient to understand an impact; rather, metrics are selected as a set across all dimensions of impact. When possible, the selection of metrics to measure and describe the five dimensions should be based on best practice and evidence.