APS Reaches All-time High Graduation Rate

Superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools Dr. Lisa Herring and 9 of the district’s precocious schoolhouse principals marched into the auditorium astatine Booker T. Washington High School done a enactment of the school’s cheerleaders, creation team, marching set drumline and auxiliary dancers to denote the APS’ each clip precocious graduation rate.

The territory graduated 83.1 percent of the people of 2021 cohort according to information from the Georgia Department of Education released Thursday.

Herring was joined connected signifier by committee of acquisition members Eshé Collins and Aretta Boldon and the 9 principals to observe the announcement.

“By achieving this all-time precocious graduation complaint APS has narrowed the spread with the authorities [graduation] complaint which is 83.7 percent by 2.9 percent points,” Herring announced.

The graduation complaint went up by 2.8 percent wide since 2020. This is the closest APS has ever gotten to the statewide graduation rate, which was 83.7 percent for the 2021 cohort.

The information besides showed that for economically disadvantaged students, students with disabilities and English Language Learners the graduation complaint decreased wide since 2020. Similarly portion the graduation complaint accrued for some achromatic and Black students, Hispanic students had a decrease.

While APS was celebrating this caller precocious arsenic a triumph Herring besides acknowledged that until the territory reaches a 100 percent graduation complaint they volition inactive person enactment to do.

She thanked the teachers, counselors and administrators that she said each played a relation successful making the world twelvemonth palmy passim the pandemic.

In examination with the 5 region districts successful Metro Atlanta lone Fulton and Cobb counties exceeded the statewide graduation rate. A look astatine the Black graduation complaint shows that but for Gwinnett and DeKalb the graduation complaint for achromatic students was little than the wide graduation rate.