Data Shows Benton Harbor High School Graduation Rate Plummeted In 2019

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The graduation rate at Benton Harbor High School in the last year plummeted. Data released this week by the Michigan Department of Education shows the graduation rate went from 75.64% in 2017-18 to just 46.71% in 2018-19. The decline is the steepest in the state. The number of students who dropped out went from fewer than 10 to 37 last year, which is the highest dropout number for Benton Harbor in the past five years. The school’s graduation rate increased from 71.22% in 2014-15 to 78.92% in 2016-17 before falling slightly the next year and sharply falling last year.

For the state, the graduation rate was 80.64% in 2017-18, the most recent year available for all of Michigan. That figure has been falling over the past three years, down from 83.45% for the class of 2016.