The California Department of Education on Monday released updated statistics on high school dropouts for the 2007-08 school year. The numbers showed significantly better performance for Los Angeles Unified campuses than earlier data that was released in May.
The new figures showed about 26.4 percent of district high schoolers were dropouts, down from previously reported 34.9 percent.
District officials said the new data showed 72.4 percent of high schoolers graduated, up 5.3 points from 2007. In a press release, Superintendent Ramon Cortines called the new numbers "good news."
Here are the new percentage results for South Bay campuses:
- Banning High: 24.0 (down from 36.3)
- Carson High: 20.7 (down from 29.1)
- Garden High: 29.1 (down from 40.0)
- Narbonne High: 28.0 (down from 42.5)
- San Pedro High: 32.4 (down from 42.3)
- Westchester High: 22.3 (down from 31.1)
Several other South Bay school districts showed small changes from the earlier reported dropout figures -- most notable El Segundo Unified. El Segundo High's rate dropped from an earlier-reported 6.2 percent to 4.3 percent. The data is available at DataQuest.
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