Saturday, May 23, 2009

Not Exactly Leading the Way

Study: Only 58.5% of Houston freshmen graduate | Chronicle | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: "As thousands of Houston-area high school seniors prepare to accept their diplomas in the coming weeks, a study released Friday shows that only 58.5 percent of the region’s freshmen make it to graduation day.

Children at Risk, a Houston-based advocacy group, commissioned the Texas Education Agency to conduct study of six-year graduation rates for the region’s 130 high schools. They learned that 53 percent of the students who begin as ninth-graders in the Houston Independent School District had not graduated from any Texas high school in six years. The combined graduation rate for the entire region’s high schools is 58.5 percent."

3 comments:

pattinase (abbott) said...

Detroit's is under thirty percent.

Anonymous said...

I am shocked that the percentage is so high. There goes the neighborhood.

RSW

Jerry House said...

Glad to see no child has been left behind.