More on high school graduation rates from Education Week

Yesterday, I discussed the fact that new high school graduation rate data from Education Week shows that Kentucky’s “official” graduation rate for the Class of 2007 is more than 10 points higher than the rate Education Week is estimating (based on a more accurate formula than Kentucky currently uses).

Today, let’s examine graduation rates for whites and blacks in Kentucky and the Nation. This data comes from a table in the EdWeek report titled “Progress on Graduation Rate Stalls.”


Note that Kentucky’s whites, who make up about 85 percent of our student population, fare notably worse in graduating than their peers nationally. The state's blacks do a lot better than blacks elsewhere, however.