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The State of California has released the official graduation rate data for the Class of 2017, and San Diego Unified ranked first among the top 5 largest districts - ahead of Long Beach, San Francisco, Fresno and Los Angeles. Among the district's 6,470 students in the 2017 cohort - students who started high school together in 2013-14, 86.6 percent of the seniors graduated.
San Diego students lead the state with higher graduation rates, lower drop out rates and high academic achievement.
The California Department of Education made several changes this year to the business rules and methodology for calculating the four-year graduation rate.
Utilizing the CDE's old methodology, San Diego Unified's 2017 graduation rate would have been 90.6 percent, only a slight decrease from last year's rate of 91.3 percent.
African-American students ranked second among large districts, with the lowest dropout rate.
Latino students in San Diego have some of the highest graduation rates in the state.
For students learning English, they ranked near the top in the state in graduation rate, and recorded the lowest dropout rate.
