Graduation, Dropout Rates In Colorado Springs Area Better Than State Averages

The Pikes Peak region's 17 public school districts are a combined 2½ percent above the statewide 79 percent graduation rate and 0.4 percent below the statewide 2.3 percent dropout rate, according to the Colorado Department of Education. However, individual districts' results are mixed for the 2016-2017 school year. Six of the area's 17 fall below the state average graduation rate, and six districts have higher dropout rates than the state average, the figures released Thursday showed. "The goal of all public education is post-secondary, so these graduation rates are showing that our kids are leaving our public schools prepared for their next step, whether that be career or college," said John Fogarty, assistant Read more on Colorado Springs Gazette