Georgia is again hitting a new peak in high school graduation rates.
The state Department of Education said Tuesday that 83.8% of seniors graduated on time in the spring. That’s the highest level recorded since Georgia began calculating according to current methods, which require a student to graduate in four years with a regular high school diploma, and rose from 82% in 2019.
It continues a trend of increasing graduation rates in the state since 2012, when about 70% of Georgia seniors were graduating on time.
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