DeKalb County
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 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...
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...