Who Wins the Highest Graduation Rate?
School graduation rates have always been a big deal in the U.S. It is specially a big deal when it comes to the race percentages of the students. Some districts depend on their graduation rate to determine their financial benefits at the end of the school year. This also determines the accuracy the teachers are teaching their students and how the students are doing overall in school. Some schools benefits from their graduation rates as they are in high percentage and they even get more financial benefits. Other schools (mostly in low income household areas), have low graduation rates and even become Title 1 schools and receive little to no financial benefits. The following indicator examines the percentage of U.S. public high school students who graduate on time as measured in the adjusted cohort graduation rate or the ACGR. In the indicator, the United States includes public schools in the fifty (50) states and the District of Columbia. State education agencies calculate the ACGR by i...
