Graduation Rates of South Cobb and Pebblebrook Among County's Lowest
Graduation rates for South Cobb High and Pebblebrook High are third and fourth lowest in the county.
Using a more uniform formula to calculate the amount of students who finish high school in four years, the graduation rates for Georgia have been rereleased, and the new numbers are much lower than originally reported. The graduation rates for South Cobb area high schools are among the lowest in the county and are below the state average. The state first announced the state's overall graduation rate as 80 percent, but with the new calculation, that number is more like 67 percent. For more about the adjusted rates, read this report from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Click here for further explanation on the new methodology. Click here to see the graduation rates for 2011 using the former method. Pebblebrook and South Cobb high schools …
Pam J
9:45 pm on Monday, July 2, 2012
I don't know what the problem is. I think back to when I was in school in the 1960's and early 1970's and we had 300+ graduating seniors in our class (at Osborne). I think that just two kids didn't graduate with the class. The upside of technology is that kids today have many ways to learn. But the downside of technology is that they get lazy and then they get busy texting and such. There are a … more ›