CHART: North Shore High School Graduation Rates
Here's how North Shore public high schools compare on graduation rates.
Recent data on nationwide high school graduation rates has placed Massachusetts outside the top 10 states in the nation with an average of 83 percent of students graduating.
The preliminary data was based on four-year cohort groups and released by the U.S. Department of Education on Monday. Final numbers will be released in the coming months.
Salem High finds itself just below that state average with an 81.7 percent rate of graduation, which is still an improvement over recent years.
When compared to other nearby public high schools, Salem is doing better than Lynn English or Lynn Classical, but trails Beverly and Danvers High.
Here's how North Shore high schools compare:
| SCHOOL | RATE |
| Beverly High | 88.4 |
| Danvers High | 90.6 |
| Hamilton-Wenham | 97.6 |
| Lynn Classical | 75.3 |
| Lynn English | 80.2 |
| Lynnfield High | 97.8 |
| Manchester-Essex | 97.3 |
| Marblehead High | 96.9 |
| Masconomet | 99.4 |
| Peabody High | 82.2 |
| Salem High | 81.7 |
| Salem Academy | 87.1 |
| Swampscott | 96.8 |
| Wakefield High | 93.5 |
gene
12:54 pm on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
81.7% may be an improvement over recent years but I would like to still the rate for "recent years"
Deb
5:45 pm on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Oh, so we beat Lynn. Terrific. I suspect that, at the rate the city is going, we'll be right there with them shortly.
20% - one fifth - of the kids never graduate. Pathetic.
SHS - the new Bentley? And hey, Peabody, you're not looking so good, either.