Virginia's on-time graduation rate up slightly
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009; 11:41 AM
About 83 percent of students in the class of 2009 graduated after four years of high school.
The Virginia Department of Education says the on-time graduation rate for public high school students who were first-time ninth-graders in 2005-06 was one percentage point higher than the previous year's class. Department officials say the increase represents nearly 1,000 more students earning diplomas.
Of the 98,043 students in the group, nearly 8 percent dropped out. The status of about 2 percent of the students hasn't been determined. A student whose status is unconfirmed isn't counted as a dropout until it's established that he or she isn't enrolled in another public or private school or being home-schooled.
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