Georgia still ranks near bottom for high school graduation rate
Georgia’s public high schools ranked sixth from the bottom among states, judged on their ability to graduate students on time.
The new report on the “four-year adjusted cohort rate” is for the 2013-14 school year.
Georgia's overall rate was 72.5 percent, ahead of Oregon, Alaska, Nevada, New Mexico and the District of Columbia, according to the data assembled by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The state ranked 10th from the bottom with its black student graduation rate of 65.2 percent and sixth from the bottom with its white grad rate of 79.7 percent. The rate for students with disabilities, 36.5 percent, was third from the bottom and for “economically disadvantaged students, 62.5 percent, fourth from the bottom.
The U.S. Department of Education said the graduation rates nationally have reached a record high.
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Ty Tagami is a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Since joining the newspaper in 2002, he has written about everything from hurricanes to homelessness. He has deep experience covering local government and education, and can often be found under the Gold Dome when lawmakers meet or in a school somewhere in the state.
