Christie Administration Releases High School Grad Rates
The NJ statewide graduation rate is 83%. Clark's rate is 97.79%.
The Christie Administration today released district and school graduation rates along with graduate pathway information. For the first time, New Jersey has calculated its high school graduation rate using a new federally-mandated methodology for the 2011 cohort of students. This new methodology, called the “four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate,” is required of every state in the country and is puported to present a more complete and accurate way of calculating the high school graduation rate. Under this new methodology, the New Jersey statewide graduation rate is 83%. Rates in Patch towns in Union County — including Clark — are significantly higher: Find all statewide graduation rates here. “As we look at these new graduation rates …
