January 17, 2025 Sandra Kinney # Latest Grad Rates Show Modest Gains and a 10-Year High in Idaho
(Idaho State) Idaho’s slowly climbing high school graduation rate reached a 10-year zenith of 82.3% last spring.
It’s a modest improvement over the class of 2023’s 81% graduation rate, but good news in a state known for having one of the nation’s lowest graduation rates.
The just-released 2024 graduation rate bested the state’s new, lowered goal to have 81.6% of students graduate on time. The previous goal had been to have 95% of students graduate on time.
By the numbers: 2024 four-year graduation rates
- 82.3% of students — or nearly 21,000 — graduated on time.
- 20,965 students graduated on time; 4,523 did not.
- 15 traditional schools districts and 11 nontraditional schools had 100% graduation rates.
- 49 districts and charters and 100 schools had graduation rates below the statewide rate.
Look up graduation rates by school district here or by school here . …