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Tuesday, February 15, 2005
State's high school graduation rate flat
The public high school graduation rate in Washington state has stayed essentially flat since 1991, much like the national rate, a non-profit policy group reports.
The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research pegged the state's graduation rate at 72 percent for the class of 2002, the latest year for which statistics were available. That ranked 31st among the states, the study said.
The 1991 rate was 70 percent in Washington state, the study said. Nationwide, the rate dipped from 72 percent in 1991 to 71 percent in 2002.
The 2002 graduation rate reported by state education officials is 65.7 percent. That rate includes only students who graduated from high school four years after entering as freshmen. The Manhattan Institute calculation does not exclude students who may be graduating after five years in high school.
The institute also calculated the percentage of students leaving public high school who are ready for academic work at a four-year college. In Washington state in 2002, that was 34 percent.
The institute's mission is to "foster greater economic choice and individual responsibility."
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