Black graduation rate improvement more than triple average

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Inweekly examined the black student graduation rates for all the Florida counties with at least 500 African-American students in their senior classes for the 2014-15 school year.

Escambia County’s improvement from 2013-14 to the 2014-15 is greater than three times the average for all the school districts with large African-American enrollments. The school district’s graduation rate is still near the bottom but the improvement was huge.

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Author: Rick Outzen

Rick Outzen is the publisher/owner of Pensacola Inweekly. He has been profiled in The New York Times and featured in several True Crime documentaries. Rick also is the author of the award-winning Walker Holmes thrillers. His latest nonfiction book is “Right Idea, Right Time: The Fight for Pensacola’s Maritime Park.”