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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Dayton grad rate still going up
The city schools’ graduation rate will rise again when the district’s state report card is released in August.
This time Dayton will report 82.8 percent for its graduation rate for 2006-07, up from 79 percent on last year’s report card. The report card’s graduation rate data is always one year behind.
The gain continues a trend that has seen the city schools’ graduation rate jump from 53.8 percent four years ago.
“It’s been a team effort,” Superintendent Percy Mack told a joint meeting of school board members and city commissioners Tuesday.
Mack also broke down the data by gender and ethnic groups, showing gains in every area. White students, who excel compared to minority groups statewide but tend to graduate at a lower rate in Dayton, made a huge gain over the four-year term — up to 69.7 percent from 36.7 percent.
Also making big gains were boys — 78.5 percent, up from 46.6 percent four years ago.
School board member Jeff Mims said the district should be commended for the performance of black students, who statewide trail far behind white students when it comes to graduating. But in Dayton, where the district is more than 75 percent black, those students outperform the district average, graduating at an 86 percent rate (up from 59.8 percent four years ago).
“Nationally, Ohio is near the bottom in African-American graduating rates,” Mims said. “We are several cuts above even other urban districts for African American graduation rates.”
Other graduation rate data:
—Girls: 86.6 percent, up from 60.8 percent four years ago
—Hispanic students: 78.6 percent, up from 66.7 percent four years ago
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