What's the real graduation rate in our schools?

Ericka Mellon:

Roughly one-third of students in Harris County's public schools leave without a diploma, according to a new analysis from Children at Risk.

The Houston-based research and advocacy nonprofit calculated for the first time a decade of average graduation rates for Harris County. It also calculated graduation rates for all the public high schools with available data in Harris, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Liberty, Montgomery and Waller counties for the ninth-grade class of 2004-05. The rate reflects students who graduated within six years.

As the graphic below shows, the percentage of students graduating high school has increased over the decade, but black and Hispanic students and those from low-income families graduate at much lower rates than their Anglo, Asian and more affluent classmates.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at December 5, 2011 2:46 AM
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