Graduation, Dropout Rates for Local Schools

State Graduation Rates Show Increase

The state’s Center for Educational Performance and Information updated graduation and dropout rates for the 2023-24 school year earlier this month.Both graduation and dropout rates and student counts are measured in four-, five- and six-year cohorts based on when students enter the ninth grade and how long it takes them to graduate.
Statewide numbers have bounced back from a Covid downturn that began in 2021. The number of students across the state dropping out has also  decreased, though it’s a number that has varied between 7-8% for several years.
Statewide 82.83% of the 115,097 students graduated and 7.6% dropped out. In 2023 the grad rate was 81.7 and in 2020 the figure was 82,7%.

Here’s how our local schools fared. Percentages are rounded up or down.

Fremont-’24 Grad rate 94%  Dropout rate 1% of 144 students. ‘23 grad rate 96%,  ‘20 Grad rate 93%.
Hesperia- ‘24 Grad rate 92% Dropout rate 3% of 61 students. ‘23 Grad rate 82%, ‘20 Grad rate 93%.
Grant- ‘24 Grad rate 91% Dropout rate 7%  of 120 students. ‘23 Grad rate 86%, ‘20 Grad rate 92%. 
Newaygo- ‘24 Grad rate 89% Dropout rate 8% of 106 students. ‘23 Grad rate 90%, ‘20 grad rate 96%.
White Cloud- ‘24 Grad rate 72% Dropout rate 13% of 79 students. ‘23 Grad rate 80%,  ‘20 Grad rate 78%.