On Aug. 4, State Schools Superintendent June Atkinson announced that North Carolina's high school graduation rates were improving. The four- and five-year graduation rates increased by 2.4 and 1.8 percentage points, respectively, continuing the progress over the past four years.
Increasing North Carolina's graduation rates must be the entire state's priority. That's why Communities In Schools of North Carolina partners with educators, businesses, community leaders, families, government agencies and other organizations to empower students to stay in school and achieve.
Last school year, the CIS network worked with 5,712 high school students identified as being in danger of dropping out, and kept in school 96.11 percent of those students. Out of all North Carolina high school students, 95.73 percent stayed in school the same school year. Although 0.38 of a percent might not seem like much, if applied to the entire population of North Carolina's high school students, 1,707 more students would have stayed in school.
