Student Achievement

Student Achievement Objectives Linked with Strategic Plan 2025-2030

Jacksonville College identifies, evaluates, and publishes goals and outcomes for student achievement that are appropriate to its mission, the nature of the students it serves, and the kinds of programs offered. The College uses multiple measures to document student success, including enrollment, retention, persistence, degrees awarded, graduation, transfer, and general education outcomes.

Criteria: Strategic Plan 2025 Aspiration 2: Learning with Excellence

We aspire to create, sustain, and improve Jesus-centered educational programs that prepare students for lives of learning work, and service.

Means 2.1: Bachelor-level programs are developed that create a sustainable student population.

Means 2.2: Associate-level pathways are sustained and improved with a focus on excellence and student achievement.

Means 2.3: Vocational training is made available to degree-seeking students and the general public.

Means 2.4: Extracurricular and cocurricular programs ensure sufficient enrollment to sustain academic programs.

Outcome: Jacksonville College seeks to increase enrollment in support of creating a sustainable student population with a focus on excellence and student achievement.

Outcome Rationale: In maximizing student enrollment, Jacksonville College helps students in pursuing their educational goals and fully utilizing college resources.

Student Achievement Goals:

• JC will have a Threshold of Accountability of mainting the previous year enrollment (0% increase)
• JC will have an Achievement Goal of a 5% increase in enrollment

Goal Rationale: Jacksonville College’s goals for enrollment are:

• Based on analyzing previous years trends
• Federally defined
• Consistently reported
• Comparable over time

Student Achievement Goal Data: Enrollment Graphs.

Evaluation of Data: Jacksonville College has met the Threshold of Acceptability 4 out of 5 years, with measure missed by 3 students (fall) and 5 students (spring) in post-Covid terms. After the post-Covid initial drop, total enrollment has remained steady and even increased. The Achievement Goal for total enrollment was met from 2022 to 2023 and from 2023 to 2024.

Outcome: Jacksonville College seeks to increase graduation rates of students.

Outcome Rationale: Degree completion shows sustainble programs that preapre students for lives of learning, work, and service.

Student Achievement Goals:

• The Key Student Completion Indicator (KSCI) establishes a KSCI threshold of acceptability of 30 percent. This threshold represents the minimum acceptable level of institutional performance and triggers formal corrective action when the College falls below it.
  • Jacksonville College establishes a KSCI target of sustained performance at or above 40 percent.
  • Jacksonville College’s Key Student Completion Indicator is the traditional IPEDS overall graduation rate, also referred to as the Student Right to Know graduation rate. The KSCI uses the full time, first time, degree or certificate seeking undergraduate cohort and measures completion within 150 percent of normal time.
• Jacksonville College will have a 3% increase in graduation rates as reported by IPEDS annually.
  • When the KSCI is below 40 percent but remains at or above the 30 percent threshold, Jacksonville College uses a 3 percentage point year to year improvement benchmark to evaluate progress toward the target.
• Jacksonville College will have an increase in total degrees awarded annually.
  • JC will have a Threshold of Accountability of 65 degrees awarded per year
  • JC will have an Achievement Goal of 70 degrees awarded per year

Goal Rationale: Jacksonville College’s goals for graduation are:

• Established by analyzing the data trends for the College in these area. In analyzing IPEDS graduation rates between 2015 and 2020, a 3% increase was evident.
• Directly responsive to SACSCOC expectation  that institutions use graduation rate metric previously identified with SACSCOC.

Student Achievement Goal Data: KSCI Compliance Report

Evaluation of Data: Jacksonville College met the 30 percent KSCI threshold in every reporting year reviewed. The College met the 40 percent target in the 2021 and 2023 reporting years. The College did not meet the target in the 2022 and 2024 reporting years. The College met the improvement benchmark in the 2025 to 2026 reporting file but did not yet return to the 40 percent target. These results demonstrate that the College tracks and evaluates both minimum performance and progress toward the sustained target.

Jacksonville College disaggregates KSCI results by gender, race and ethnicity, and Pell or non Pell status. The disaggregated analysis identifies recurring completion gaps requiring continued monitoring and improvement response. Gender disaggregation shows that male completion trailed female completion in multiple reporting years. Race and ethnicity disaggregation identifies the most consistent completion gap among Black or African American students in the 2018 through 2022 cohorts. Pell and non Pell completion generally remained near the institutional KSCI rate, although the 2024 reporting year showed a Pell completion decline that required review. The race and ethnicity unknown category is large in recent cohorts and is treated as a data quality improvement item.

Jacksonville College also reviews contextual factors that may affect interpretation of year to year results. COVID disruption affected persistence, course completion, enrollment continuity, transfer decisions, and graduation timing for cohorts whose enrollment and completion windows overlapped the pandemic period. The 2024 to 2025 elimination of basketball is included only where institutional records confirm that affected student athletes were included in the relevant IPEDS cohorts, that the roster was materially Black or African American, and that students transferred or did not complete at Jacksonville College.

Student Achievement Goal Data: Degrees Awarded Graph.

Evaluation of Data: Jacksonville College has exceeded the 3% increase in graduation rates reported by IPEDS for the years of 2022 and 2024. The objective was not met in the years of 2020, 2021, and 2023. The Threshold of Acceptability with at least 65 degrees being awarded annually has been met 2 of the last 6 years. The Achievement Goal of 70 degrees awarded per year has been met once in 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic and leadership transitions can account for varied results over the last five years.

Outcome: Jacksonville College seeks to increase the retention of its degree seeking students.

Outcome Rationale: Retention rates indicate Jacksonville College students are pursuing sustainable learning.

Student Achievement Goal:

• JC will have a Threshold of Accountability of 45 % per year
• JC will have an Achievement Goal of 48% per year
  • This includes a 3% increase of degree seeking students continue enrollment in Jacksonville College

Goal Rationale: Jacksonville College’s goal for continuing enrollment rate was established by analyzing the data trends for the College in this area.

Student Achievement Goal Data: Academic Retention Graphs and Persistence Data.

Evaluation of Data: For first-time freshman students, Threshold of Acceptability has been met 6 out of 8 of the past 8 academic years with the Achievement Goal being met 5 times. Overall average retention rates have met the Threshold of Acceptability for the past 5 years and the Achievement Goal for 3 of those.

Further Enrollment and Graduation Data

• Full Time and Part Time Enrollment
• Academic Persistence
• Jacksonville College IPEDS Graduation Rate
• Degrees Awarded Per Year by Jacksonville College
• Percentage of Graduates from JC’s Local Counties
• Subsequent Degrees/Certificates Earned
• Jacksonville College Enrollment History
• Student Achievement Measure
• Retention Rates
• Transfer Rate
• Gender Distribution History
• Gender Distribution Current Term
• Diversity History
• Diversity Current Term
• KSCI Disaggregation by Gender and Pell Status
• KSCI Disaggregation by Race and Ethnicity
• Year by Year KSCI Analysis and Improvement Response
• YBY KSCI Analysis and Improvement Response Evidence
• KSCI Dashboard and Charts