Mass. Outside Top 10 for Graduation Rate, Peabody Just Below State Average
Massachusetts had an adjusted graduation rate of 83 percent for the 2010-2011 school year, while Peabody Veterans Memorial High School's adjusted graduation rate that year was 82.2 percent, which is still an improvement over recent years.
Massachusetts didn't make the top 10 high school graduation rates in the nation, according to preliminary data released by the U.S. Department of Education on Monday, and Peabody High is just below the state average. The graduation rates released Monday are for the 2010-2011 school year—the first year for which all states used a common, adjusted four-year cohort graduation rate, according to a U.S. Department of Education press release. Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) spokesman JC Considine told Patch in an e-mail that Massachusetts has been computing cohort graduation rates since 2006, which are available on the DESE website. According to the preliminary state-reported data, for the 2010-2011 school …
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Bob Croce
12:41 pm on Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Good to see improvement here, but being below the state average should be unacceptable for Peabody. These results coincide with the search for a new high school principal, so here's hoping the search committee will ask those candidates what their strategy would be for improving grad rates. We just wrote about this today in our blog. You can check it out at: http://bit.ly/RgtLvj. We'll also be … more ›