Cobb County
DeKalb Reached 81.6% but Trailed Five Metro Peers
Correction (July 21, 2026): The original article misstated two Metro Atlanta peer gaps and the Hispanic endpoint improvement. It also attributed graduation-rate differences to leadership and programs ...
Georgia's Hispanic Cohort Doubled. The Rate Still Climbed 25 Points.
In 2011, Gainesville City graduated fewer than half its Hispanic seniors. The district, seat of Hall County in the northeast Georgia poultry belt, had been majority-Hispanic for years. Its four-year r...
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...
Georgia's Income Graduation Gap Fell to 3.5 Points
> Correction: An earlier version placed the largest one-year change one year late and identified 2014 instead of 2013 as a decline year. The published series shows the jump from 2013 to 2014; it does ...