Education

Graduation Gaps

The following information is provided by Kids Count data center, part of the Annie E. Casey Foundation.  Source data is provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Education and Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children.

A graduation gap represents the percentage of students who began in ninth grade and did not graduate from the same district four years later.  This cohort model replaces the traditional annual measure of the number of dropouts compared to enrollments during a single school year. 

Values presented in the following table are based on the average graduation gap for the school districts in each county: