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These three high schools lead Fulton’s high school graduation rate

Georgia high school students posted a significant gain in graduation rates in 2015, with 78.8 percent getting a diploma. CURTIS COMPTON / CCOMPTON@AJC.COM
Georgia high school students posted a significant gain in graduation rates in 2015, with 78.8 percent getting a diploma. CURTIS COMPTON / CCOMPTON@AJC.COM
By Ty Tagami
Nov 9, 2015

Northview, John’s Creek and Hapeville Charter Career Academy had the highest graduation rates among Fulton high schools in 2015.

Nearly everyone at Northview High School graduated, with a 98.8 percent rate; John’s Creek showed a 97.6 percent rate, and Hapeville Charter came in a close third with 97.4 percent of its seniors graduating in 2015.

The state Department of Education just released the numbers Monday morning, which show a solid spike in graduation rates across the state. Come back to myajc.com later this morning for a school-by-school review. Check in on myajc.com as we begin sifting the numbers to see how schools did.

Nearly four out of five of the freshmen who entered high school in 2011 graduated with their class of 2015, the DOE reported.

The 78.8 percent graduation rate is more than 6 percentage points higher than the rate for the class of 2014 — a considerable increase, since the 2014 rate was less than a fraction of a percentage point higher than the year before.

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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.

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