U.S. high school grad rate reaches another all‐time high. But what does it mean?
The U.S. high school graduation rate has risen for yet another year, to a new all‐time high of 84.6 percent. But even as
some celebrated the steady gains in high school completion, others worried that the pace of improvement is slowing,
and that the numbers tell a false story.
New figures released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics show
that 84.6 percent of the students in the class of 2016‐17 earned diplomas in four years. That’s a half‐point better than
in 2015‐16, when the graduation rate was 84.1 percent. Read more