Kentucky’s overall high school graduation rate for the 2009-10 school year was 76.68 percent as computed under a new formula, the state Department of Education said Tuesday.
While 2009-10 is the most recent year for which graduation figures are available, the state also released recalculated rates for 2007-08 and 2008-09 Tuesday using the new “averaged freshman graduation” formula.
Under that formula, Kentucky’s overall graduation rate for 2007-08 was 74.99 percent, and it climbed to 75.11 percent in 2008-09, state education officials said.
Kentucky is switching to the averaged freshman formula as it transitions toward a new, federally mandated uniform national formula designed to put all states on the same page in computing graduation rates.