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Cincinnati Enquirer
Graduation, dropout rates are improving
Newport Independent turns surging problem around
Jan 22, 2013

Written by Jessica Brown 

A national report released today has good news about the nation’s high schools. 

Fewer students dropped out of high school in 2009-10 than the previous year, and more students overall graduated. 

That’s according to a preliminary report from the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics. 

Meanwhile, state data shows the Newport Independent School District is making progress in curbing its dropout rate. The Enquirer reported in May that the dropout rate for the urban district had skyrocketed to 8.4 percent in 2008-09, the highest rate in our region and in Kentucky. 

Data from the Kentucky Department of Education shows that the rate fell to 6.6 percent in 2009-10. Although that’s still the highest in the state, it shrank more than the rates in most other school districts. 

The fall occurred even as the state’s dropout rate rose slightly, according to the national report, while dropout rates in Ohio and Indiana remained relatively flat. 

Newport officials were unable to be reached Friday. In May they told The Enquirer they’d beefed up dropout-prevention programs, like adding an in-school daycare and focusing on mentoring and credit-recovery programs. They said the 2010-11 rate has dropped even more. 

The preliminary report lists state and national data; it will add district-specific data in a few weeks. The Kentucky Department of Education lists its dropout statistics online. Equivalent information is not available from the Ohio or Indiana education departments 

Graduation, dropout rates

Among the highlights in the national report: 

• The national graduation rate was 78.2 percent (3.1 million graduates), meaning 78.2 percent of students who were freshmen graduated as seniors in the 2009-10 school year. That’s up from 75.5 percent the previous year and is the highest it’s been since 1974, study organizers said. 

Read the rest of the article and get the full report at the Cincinnati Enquirer


 
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