Idaho’s Graduation Rate: 77.3%

More than three in four Idaho students earned a high school diploma within four years, according to 2013-14 numbers from the State Department of Education. And close to 88 percent of the students in the class of 2014 pursued or received a high school diploma or certificate of some form. “In the end, we are still graduating kids at a higher rate than we ever did before,” state superintendent Sher.ri Ybarra said Wednesday. However, Ybarra’s own State Department of Education says the new numbers cannot be compared with reports from previous years, since Idaho is now complying with new and more stringent federal reporting guidelines. And it’s — at least for the time being — to compare Idaho’s most recent graduation numbers with other states/ Kevin Richert , IDEDNews.org. More here.