Wake graduation rates drop
Published: Mon, Jul. 21, 2008 03:55PM
Modified Mon, Jul. 21, 2008 04:00PM
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closeRALEIGH -- Wake County school officials reported today a slight drop in the district’s high school graduation rate.
School officials said 78.8 percent of students who entered high school in 2004 graduated on time last spring. That’s down from the 79.3 percent graduation rate that Wake reported last year.
School districts across the country are required to report the percentage of students who graduate from high school in four years, It’s one of the ways high schools are measured under the federal No Child Left Behind program.
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The latest statewide figures haven’t been released yet but Wake historically has a higher graduation rate. Last year, the state’s four-year graduation rate was 69.5 percent.
Like school districts across the country, there’s racial gap in graduation rates in Wake. While nine out of 10 white and Asian students graduated on time, it drops to six out of 10 black students and five out of 10 Hispanic students.
Go to http://www.wcpss.net to see school-by-school graduation rates.
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