Charter schools tout role in state’s rising graduation rate

While Georgia public school officials are boasting of a historically high graduation rate, officials with the state’s public charter schools are touting their role in boosting those numbers.  According to information from the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE), the state’s four-year graduation rate rose to 87.2 percent – up from 85.4 percent in 2024, and an all-time high since the state began using the adjusted cohort calculation first required in 2011 by federal law. But charter school officials point to new data from the GaDOE shows that students attending a charter high school “are more likely to graduate.”