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Orange County has a lower dropout rate and higher graduates

High school dropout rate climbs to 34.9%

The high school dropout rate improved slightly in California last year but rose in Los Angeles, where more than one-third of students are officially classified as dropouts, state officials said Tuesday.

Statewide, 68.3% of students graduated and 20.1% dropped out, according to data released by the state Department of Education. For the Los Angeles Unified School District, the dropout rate was 34.9%. Although the state dropout rate was down 1 percentage point from the previous year, the Los Angeles Unified rate was up by more than 3 percentage points.




Orange County's high school graduation reached 81.7 percent for the Class of 2010, with a dropout rate of about 14 percent, according to new figures released Thursday.

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