Statewide Success Data for AB-705 English

The following is an excerpt from the AA 18-40 Memorandum by the California Community College Chancellor's Office.

The following table provides baseline success rates for students throughout the California Community College (CCC) system that are within ten years of high school graduation. 

Analysis of all CCC’s, performed by the MMAP team, demonstrates that even students with the lowest levels of high school performance are more likely to successfully complete a transfer level course in one year if they are placed directly into transfer level.

Note that each threshold includes recommendations for concurrent support depending on students’ backgrounds and needs.

Students who have graduated from high school within the past ten years and have a goal of transfer or degree attainment should be recommended to enroll directly into transfer-level courses in English, using the correlations as follows: 

High School Performance Metric for English	Recommended AB 705 Placement for English
HSGPA ≥ 2.6 Success rate = 78.6%	Transfer-Level English Composition No additional academic or concurrent support required
HSGPA 1.9 - 2.6 Success rate = 57.7%	Transfer-Level English Composition Additional academic and concurrent support recommended
HSGPA < 1.9 Success rate = 42.6%	Transfer-Level English Composition Additional academic and concurrent support strongly recommended