Four high schools in the Cobb County School District had graduation rates of 96 percent or more for the Class of 2019, and three of them are in East Cobb.
By a slim margin, Lassiter High School’s rate of 97.4 percent is the highest of the district’s 16 high schools, with Harrion at 97.2.
Walton came in third at 96.9 percent, and Pope had 96.2. It’s the second year in a row Lassiter topped the list. In 2018, Lassiter’s graduation rate was 95.6 percent.
Those were highlights of 2019 graduation rate information released Wednesday by the district, which had an overall rate of 86.98. That’s 1.8 percent better than 2018 figures and five percent higher than the Georgia statewide average, according to the CCSD release.
Other metro Atlanta school district graduation rates include: Fulton, 87.2; Gwinnett, 80.9; Atlanta, 78; Marietta, 75.7; and DeKalb, 73.4.
The biggest jump in Cobb graduation rates came at Wheeler High School, which went from 77.3 percent last year to 86.7, an increase of 9.4 percent.
Graduation rates were also up at Kell and Sprayberry, included in the chart below, which also shows what the district has compiled as “four-year” graduation rates.
The single-year 2019 figures are based on a federal formula that counts students who attend at least one class day in the school year.
Cobb factors in graduation rates on a full-year basis, including one-, two-, three- and four-year scales. While the class sizes are reduced over time, the graduation rates go up.
Lassiter’s is 100 for students who attend all four years—what the district also calls “real” graduation rates.
| 2019 Grad Class Size | 2019 Rate | 2018 Rate | 4-Year Rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kell | 366 | 89.3 | 83.8 | 96.3 |
| Lassiter | 532 | 97.4 | 95.6 | 100 |
| Sprayberry | 436 | 89.4 | 86.2 | 97.0 |
| Pope | 487 | 96.3 | 94.1 | 99.0 |
| Walton | 670 | 96.9 | 95.1 | 99.0 |
| Wheeler | 540 | 86.7 | 77.3 | 99.1 |
| Cobb | 9,058 | 87.0 | 85.2 | 97.6 |
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