Graduation and drop out rates up

Florida Department of Education has released its report on the graduation and drop out rates for 2005-06. Escambia, Santa Rosa and Okaloosa are better than the state averages:

Graduation 71.0%  Drop Out 3.5%

Under Superintendent  Jim Paul – Esc. County graduation rates have improved almost 10% – from 65.2% in 2000-01 to 74.8% in 05-06.  For the same period: Santa Rosa – 75.4% to 85.5%; Okaloosa – 76.8% to 86.0%.

However, drop out rates also increased for Escambia and Santa Rosa counties from 2000-01 to 2005-06
Esc: 2.4% to 3.1%   Santa Rosa: 2.2% to 2.3%

Only Okaloosa County had a decrease from 3.7% to 2.2%

Read FL DOE report

• 2006 Florida Graduation and Dropout Rates (PDF, 227KB)