Cobb high school graduation rate remains steady as 8 schools see gains

The statewide rate this year was 80.6 percent.

Of the 16 high schools in the state’s second-largest school district, eight saw increases from the prior year.

Six Cobb schools posted rates above 90 percent, with Harrison High School atop the list at 96.3 percent.

At the bottom of the list was Pebblebrook High School at 65.8 percent. That number has fluctuated the past five years; it started at 58.3 percent and peaked last year at 72.3 percent.

Below are the 2017 graduation rates for the 16 high schools:

• Allatoona, 90.1 percent (1.2 percent down from last year)

• Campbell, 79.2 percent (0.8 percent up from last year)

• Harrison, 96.3 percent (2.1 percent up from last year)

• Hillgrove, 91 percent (2.3 percent down from last year)

• Kell, 87.9 percent (2.9 percent up from last year)

• Kennesaw Mountain, 82.6 percent (2.7 percent down from last year)

• Lassiter, 95.7 percent (1.2 percent up from last year)

• McEachern, 83.3 percent (1.4 percent down from last year)

• North Cobb, 89.4 percent (1.3 percent up from last year)

• Osborne, 67.5 percent (2.7 percent up from last year)

• Pebblebrook, 65.8 percent (6.5 percent down from last year)

• Pope, 91.8 percent (1.6 percent down from last year)

• South Cobb, 72.6 percent (0.8 percent down from last year)

• Sprayberry, 85.5 percent (3.8 percent up from last year)

• Walton, 94.5 percent (1.6 percent down from last year)

• Wheeler, 81.1 percent (0.4 percent up from last year)

Here's what superintendent Chris Ragsdale had to say the first day of Cobb classes this year:

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