Twelve Senior Classes Under Jerry Weast Equals 16,800 Dropouts

Patch:  Twelve Senior Classes Under Jerry Weast Equals 16,800 Dropouts

According to "Education Week," the Montgomery County Public Schools have the highest graduation rate among the nation’s largest school districts. Click here to read the wonderful news. 

I’m a realist and see both sides of everything. So, if 86 percent of MCPS high schoolers graduate from a typical class, then 14 percent dropped out, right?  (Note: "Education Week" calculated its 86 percent graduation rate for the MCPS senior class of 2008. One can read more about the publication's "Diplomas Count" project by clicking here.) 

Fourteen percent is a lot of students. A typical MCPS class or cohort is roughly 10,000 students. Fourteen percent equals 1,400 dropouts—which is a lot of students to lose along the way to their high school graduations.

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