Gwinnett 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 ...
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 English Learners Still Post Lower Absence Rates
Correction (July 21, 2026): The original article mixed verified Georgia attendance results with external numerical comparisons, causal explanations and projections that the state absence file cannot t...
Gwinnett's White-Black Graduation Gap Falls to 1.5 Points
Correction (July 20, 2026; audited July 22, 2026): An earlier version calculated racial shares from a subset of categories rather than the full cohort, slightly overstating several 2011 and 2025 share...
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 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...