Gov. Greg Abbott is right the Texas high school graduation rate is 90%. That statistic comes from Texas Education Agency 2020 data.
four Texas high schools among the top 50 STEM high schools, and the Texas public high school graduation rate.,"That's why Texas' public high school graduation rate is at 90% overall."
Does Texas have a 90% high school graduation rate? State data supports the Abbott campaign's statistic.PolitiFact Texas reached out to Abbott's campaign but did not hear back. However, the video credited the Texas Education Agency for the graduation rate statistic. Of the students who started ninth grade in 2016-17, scheduled to graduate in 2020, 90.3% graduated within four years,
. This percentage is called the four-year longitudinal graduation rate, because it measures how much of a starting ninth gradeThe remaining 10% might have continued school, received a high school equivalency certificate, or dropped out. Abbott's statistic checks out. Some demographic groups have better graduation rates than others. Economically disadvantaged students graduated 6 percentage points lower than those who were not . Compared with state averages, there were lower graduation rates and higher dropout rates for students in special education programs and students identified as learning English as a second language.
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