Atlanta Public Schools
DeKalb Tops 80% but Remains Last Among Metro Atlanta Peers
On September 29, 2025, at a ceremony held at Lithonia High School, DeKalb County officials celebrated a milestone: for the first time in district history, the four-year graduation rate had crossed 80%...
Foster Care Graduates at Half the State Rate
In the Class of 2018, 304 foster care students in Georgia did not graduate on time. That was not 304 out of thousands. The entire cohort was 484. Six out of every 10 foster youth who entered ninth gra...
Georgia's Special Ed Graduation Rate Has More Than Doubled
In 2011, Bibb County graduated 9.2% of its students with disabilities. Nine out of every hundred seniors with an IEP walked across a stage in Macon. The other 91 did not.
76 Georgia Districts Hit All-Time Highs
In Muscogee County, six of nine high schools posted their highest graduation rates on record this year. Columbus High and Rainey-McCullers School of the Arts graduated every single senior. The distric...
Nearly Three in Four Georgia Students Are Economically Disadvantaged. Their Absence Rate Is Double.
In Bibb County, a school district of about 23,000 students in central Georgia, 30.4% of students who are economically disadvantaged were chronically absent last year. For their non-disadvantaged peers...
Atlanta Crosses 90% for the First Time
In 2022, Frederick Douglass High School in southwest Atlanta graduated 62.1% of its seniors. The school had cycled through 11 principals in 10 years. Its freshmen failed courses at a 52.7% clip. That ...
Georgia's Graduation Gap Fell from 15.7 to 2.8 Points
In Clayton County, Black students graduate at 87.1%. White students graduate at 75.7%. The gap runs 11.4 percentage points in Black students' favor, a reversal that demonstrates significant improvemen...
Georgia Went From 67.5% to 87.2% in 14 Years
In 2011, Clayton County graduated 51.5% of its seniors. Last fall, the district posted 86.3%, a 34.8 percentage point gain over 14 years. The senior who would have been the coin flip, the student whos...