Find your school's four-year graduation rate

Colorado’s four-year graduation rate increased slightly in 2011, up to 73.9 percent, state officials announced Friday, though the data shows little progress in some areas, including the long-running gender gap.

Female graduation rates have outpaced male graduation rates since at least 1997, the oldest data available on the state website, and they appear to have grown slightly since then. That may be because of a federally mandated change in 2010 requiring the state to focus on an “on-time” or four-year graduation rate, rather than including those graduating after five and six years.

The gender gap cuts across all ethnic groups. In the Class of 2011, for example, Asian students posted the highest graduation rate of 81.7 percent. But Asian girls graduated at a rate of 85.2 percent and Asian boys at a rate of 78.4 percent.

Drilling into the data shows exceptions. In Denver, girls graduated at a rate of 62.7 percent while boys languished just below 50 percent. But at the Denver School of Science and Technology, boys graduated at a higher rate than girls.

This database shows “on-time” graduation rates for 2009, 2010 and 2011, as well as honing in on gender and ethnicity for the Class of 2011:

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Click here to load this Caspio Online Database.Search tips and data notes

  • Click any district name and hit Search to bring up all schools in that district and to bring up “district totals” encompassing all high schools.
  • To compare schools or districts, hit “Ctrl” and click on as many names as you’d like to see. To compare to statewide averages, scroll down to “State Totals” in the School District search box.
  • Clicking the “Details” button brings up detailed information about gender and ethnicity gaps, including gaps by gender within different ethnic groups.
  • State officials switched to the new “four-year” graduation rate with the Class of 2010 but they also reconfigured rates for the Class of 2009 for comparison. The new four-year or “on-time” rate counts students entering high school as ninth-graders four years previously. In earlier years, students who took five or six years to graduate were included.
  • Can’t find a school? Think your school data is in error? Email us at EdNews@EdNewsColorado.org and we’ll check it out.
  • If you prefer your data in spreadsheet format, click on this Colorado Department of Education link.

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