All students have exemplary graduation rates
Objective Description
Trend Analysis
The Class of 2023 experienced COVID-19 interruptions in their freshman and sophomore years of high school and returned to a more typical school year in their junior year. The 2023 graduation rates are being compared to 2019 statewide, as 2023 graduation requirements were more comparable to those before the COVID-19 pandemic. Some waivers still in place may have positively impacted graduation rates for the Classes of 2020-2022. The Maryland state’s four-year 2023 cohort graduation rate was 85.8%, down from 86.3% in 2022 and 86.9% in 2019. Of the 4,564 HCPSS students who entered high school in the fall of 2019-20 (Class of 2023), 92.57% graduated in four years, reflecting a decrease of 0.21 percentage points from 92.78% for the Class of 2019. The HCPSS Class of 2023 dropout rate was 4.38%, reflecting a decrease of 0.14 percentage points from 4.53% for the Class of 2019. The graduation rate for students with Limited English Proficiency increased by 13.11 percentage points from 47.22% for the Class of 2019 to 60.33% for the Class of 2023. The graduation rate for Black/African American students increased by 1.56 percentage points from 88.74% for the Class of 2019 to 90.30% for the Class of 2023.
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Source: Howard County Public School System