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Dare high school graduation rate drops slightly
While North Carolina’s on-time high school graduation rate topped 80 percent during the just-completed school year, the rate at Dare County high schools dropped slightly overall from 2011 to 2012.
In Dare County’s four high schools, 88.9 percent of students graduated in four years in 2011-12, down from 90.1 percent the previous year.
But Dare County’s rate was again the highest of 14 counties in northeastern North Carolina. Hyde County’s numbers for 2011-12 were not available from the North Carolina Public School Accountability Services Division website.
Cape Hatteras Secondary School jumped from 85.1 percent in 2010-11 to 94.9 percent in 2011-12, while the Dare Alternative School went from 29.4 percent to 50 percent.
First Flight High School dropped from above 95 percent to 93.1 percent, Manteo High School was down to 90.1 percent this past year, after topping 95 percent the previous term.
The state report does not list the exact numbers for schools that are at or above 95 percent.
Currituck County High School’s rate increased from 80.3 percent to 87.4 percent.
Seventy-four percent of students in the northeast finished high school in four years, with Camden, Pasquotank and Perquimans also topping 80 percent.
The bottom three counties in the area were Beaufort, Bertie, and Northampton counties, coming in just below 72 percent each.
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unemployable says:
I certainly hope those that have dropped out have special skills that will keep them employed and able to support themselves and whatever family they will eventually have.
Martin Booth says:
……but do these statistics prove ANYTHING about the performance of K-12 education other than children CAN be pushed along in school and handed a diploma? There are absolutely NO standards to measure school performance nationwide other than the SAT which is less than perfect.
ekim says:
HMMMMMM They let the kids k-i2 take the test over & over & over til THEY GET IT RIGHT why do they drop out????
Steve says:
Student achievement is 100% the responsibility of the parents. If the parents don’t value education, then it is a lost cause.
102 says:
yep I’m a Yankee. I’ve have lived here since 1985. The high school I went to had an annual graduating class of around 500 students. Kids were not passed unless they could do the work. I graduated in 1977 and we had almost a 95% graduation rate. We didn’t have computers nor did the teachers have aids to help them with testing or grading or correcting homework. I my day to pass a student to get rid of them was like as bad as helping them buy a gun and rob a store. Education is important. The basics like reading, writing, and math can help almost everyone get through life. Computers have a place but let’s get back to the basics and teach these kids. Trade schools are a wonderful thing because to help our kids that they aren’t dummy’s or illiterate if they don’t go to college. Take an honest look around you folks, in our area there is not an overabundance of jobs that require 4 years of college but they do require common sense and the ability to write the kings english and to communicate with people. Get back to the basics, teach our youngest asset to the best of there ability and they will excel.