Recently released (2014-15) statistics show that this county’s high school graduation rate is 76 percent. It’s tops in the Tampa Bay area. It’s also 2.5 percentage points above what it was in 2013-14. That’s the good news, if you don’t dwell on the fact that nearly one in four high school students still doesn’t graduate.
What’s downright discouraging is that at Armwood (64.5%) and Middleton (65.7), it’s more like one in three.
For the record, Plant (96.2%) and Steinbrenner (94.8%) were at the other end of the scale.