The Cobb County School District released graduation rates for the last four years on Wednesday, and all six high schools in East Cobb have remained steady or had moderate rises in the last five years. The Wheeler graduation rate, which has jumped nearly 10 percent in that time, is one of the biggest increases in the district.
The statistics show that Walton, Lassiter and Pope were among the six high schools with graduation rates exceeding 90 percent in 2017.
Kell and Sprayberry reported graduation rates in the mid-to-high 80s. At Wheeler, where the graduation rate was 71.2 percent in 2013, it now is 81.1, a boost of 9.9 percent.
The only gains larger than the Wheeler graduation rate were at Osborne, Campbell and South Cobb, whose jumps were in double digits.
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Sprayberry had the biggest increase in its graduation rate from 2016, from 81.7 percent to 85.5.
“We don’t allow students to make mistakes that will cost them graduation. We prepare our students for life after high school,” Sprayberry principal Joe Sharp said in a statement issued by the CCSD, adding that “all the students know there are adults in the building to support them in their goal of graduation.”
Harrison High School led all of Cobb with a 2017 graduation rate of 96.3, followed by Lassiter (95.7), Walton (94.5), Pope (91.8), Hillgrove (91.0) and Allatoona (90.1).
Cobb’s graduation rate for 2017 is 83.6 percent.
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 5-Year Trend | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kell | 80.6 | 78.5 | 84.7 | 85.0 | 87.9 | +7.3 |
| Lassiter | 91.4 | 91.5 | 93.8 | 94.5 | 95.7 | +4.3 |
| Pope | 91.9 | 88.0 | 91.7 | 93.4 | 91.8 | -0.1 |
| Sprayberry | 82.4 | 80.9 | 72.0 | 81.7 | 85.5 | +3.1 |
| Walton | 90.8 | 92.7 | 94.1 | 96.1 | 94.5 | +3.7 |
| Wheeler | 71.2 | 70.5 | 79.4 | 80.7 | 81.1 | +9.9 |
| Cobb | 76.5 | 78.2 | 81.4 | 83.8 | 83.6 | +7.1 |
