Iowa’s 4-year high school graduation rate increases slightly

Iowa’s 4-year high school graduation rate increases slightly

The four-year graduation rate for Iowa’s public high school class of 2024 was 88.3%, slightly higher than the rate of the previous year’s graduating class, new data from the Iowa Department of Education shows. In fall 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, 38,701 Iowa public school students began ninth grade; in spring 2024, 34,158,…