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DE Graduation and Drop Out Rate Improves

The graduation and dropout rates for high school students in Delaware is improving.

The high school graduation rate inched up from 84.6 percent from 84.3 percent in 2015.

Around 83-hundred out of 98-hundred students graduated with a high school diploma.

Meanwhile, the dropout rate declined from 2.2 percent in the 2014-2015 school year to 1.4 percent in the last term.

The Red Clay School District - now the biggest statewide - hailed its low dropout rate of .9 percent.

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Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.