{"id":3512,"date":"2011-12-12T14:27:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T19:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2012-01-04T17:27:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T22:27:42","slug":"florida-graduation-rate-at-highest-level-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/12\/12\/florida-graduation-rate-at-highest-level-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Graduation Rate At Highest Level Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Florida\u2019s graduation rate has been on the rise for the last six years. In fact, the rate has reached its highest level ever. That\u2019s the news from the Florida Department of Education<\/a>, which just released a report for the 2010-2011 school year.<\/p>\n

The results show minority students in particular continue to graduate at higher levels. \u00a0Hispanic students have increased graduation rates 13 percent and African-American students are up 11.5 percent since 2006-07. Overall, Florida\u2019s graduation rate<\/a> rose more than one point to 80.1 percent last school year. That\u2019s an increase of nearly 10 percentage points since 2006-07.<\/p>\n

The current graduation rate is 68.4 percent for African-Americans, 77.3 percent for Hispanics, and 86.8 for white students. \u201cI want to commend Florida\u2019s teachers, students, parents and school leaders for their dedication to helping their students learn and earn their high school diplomas,\u201d said Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson<\/a>. \u201cAs educators, we each play a significant role in helping our students achieve academic success, and graduation is one critical step toward the path to college and career.\u201d<\/p>\n

Starting in 2006, Florida began using the National Governors Association<\/a> (NGA) Compact to calculate the graduation rate. This method includes standard and special diplomas, although it excludes GED<\/a>s (General Educational Development). It measures the percentage of students who graduate within four years of their first enrollment in ninth grade. NGA graduation rates are reported in the No Child Left Behind School Public Accountability Reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are other methods of calculating the number of graduates. Florida\u2019s regular rate, which has been calculated since 1998-99, counts all diploma recipients including GEDs. The regular rate shows the same upward trend over the last five years, and is slightly higher overall because of the inclusion of GEDs. In addition, the federal uniform rate will be required for federal accountability reporting purposes beginning in 2011-12. This rate is based only on standard diplomas, and those numbers will be released in January.<\/p>\n

As more students graduate, fewer are dropping out of school.\u00a0 Florida\u2019s dropout rate declined for the sixth straight year to 1.9 percent. It\u2019s the first time the rate has been below two percent.<\/p>\n

The state and district graduation and dropout rates can be found on the DOE website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florida\u2019s graduation rate has been on the rise for the last six years. In fact, the rate has reached its highest level ever. That\u2019s the news from the Florida Department of Education, which just released a report for the 2010-2011 school year. The results show minority students in particular continue to graduate at higher levels. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[207,206,205],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}