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Article: NEW REPORT SHOWS CONTINUED INCREASE IN FOUR-YEAR GRADUATION RATE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- February 5, 2009
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The Massachusetts Department of Education issued the following news release:
More than 81 percent of students who entered high school as ninth graders in 2004 graduated in 2008, marking the second year in a row the state's four-year, on-time graduation rate has increased.
In all, 81.2 percent of the nearly 77,400 students in 2008 "cohort" those who entered as 9th graders in 2004 or who transferred into the appropriate grade graduated in four years, up from 80.9 percent in 2007 and 79.9 percent in 2006. Statewide, more than 80 percent of students graduated in four years in 215 out of 284 school districts, and in 236 out of 363 high schools.
According to the results, students who remained in ...