How Many Students Really Graduate From High School?
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D.C. sees huge drop in graduation rate under new calculation
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A few months ago, when we asked a random sampling of D.C. residents about the dropout rate of District public school students, their guesses actually weren’t that far off. Many of them guessed that 70-80 percent of students graduate; the actual official graduation rate for 2009-2010 hovered around 76 percent.
That number was not exactly a true picture of what was going on, however; and the 2010-2011 graduation numbers prove it. D.C.'s graduation rate for the most recent school year had dropped to 59 percent.
That means just a little more than half of all D.C. public school children are graduating with high school diplomas in four years. Even more striking is the difference between traditional and charter schools; 80 percent of charter school students graduated in 2011, but just 53 percent of students at traditional schools did the same.
New calculation has widespread impacts
So why...
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