Lassiter High School had the highest graduation rate for the Cobb County School District in the Class of 2023.
The district announced in a release Tuesday that 476 of Lassiter’s 484-member senior class graduated in May, for 98.4 percent.
Lassiter was second in the 17-high school Cobb school district last year, and this year is one of nine schools with a graduation rate of 90 percent or better.
Four of those are in East Cobb. Walton is fourth in Cobb at 96.8 percent (595 of 615 seniors graduating). Pope is fifth at 95.6 percent (461 of 482).
“Every day, our staff embrace and support our students to help them reach the finish line,” Lassiter principal Chris Richie said in the Cobb school district release.
“The support our parents and community provide is exceptional, and ultimately, we are thankful that our students come to school each day prepared to engage in the process of learning. It’s that collective collaboration between our faculty, students, parents, and the Lassiter community that allows everyone to embrace our vision of reaching excellence and climbing higher.”
Kell’s graduation rate was 93.8 percent (317 of 333), and Wheeler’s was 90.7 (477 of 526).
Those figures represent increases of 2.5 percent and 3.9 percent, respectively, from 2022. third in the district behind Osborne, whose graduation rate of 74.3 percent is up 6.3 percent.
Sprayberry’s graduation rate was 87.5 percent (412 of 471).
That’s right at the Cobb average of 87.7 percent, which is up 0.3 percent from 2022. In major metro Atlanta school districts, Cobb is second behind Fulton County, with a graduation rate of 90.3 percent.
Harrison and Hillgrove tied for second in Cobb with graduation rates of 97 percent.
Across Georgia, the overall graduation rate is 84.4 percent, which also is an increase of 0.3 percent from last year.
Public school districts are required by federal law to publish graduation rates, and must use a formula to calculate those figures by counting students who are enrolled for even a single day over four years.
Cobb schools said in its release that Lassiter would have had a 100 percent graduation rate had the numbers been counted to reflect students there who attended all four years.
What the district terms “real” graduation rates includes nine Cobb schools with graduation rates of 99 percent or better.
The Georgia Department of Education has broken down graduation rate data further, including by racial, ethnic, economically challenged and students with disabilities, even at the school level. You can view that information by clicking here.
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