Chesterton High School achieves a best in graduation rate

Chesterton High School recorded its best-ever graduation rate as 99.1% of the members from the class of 2025 have received diplomas.

Duneland School Corporation Superintendent Chip Pettit listed the high school graduation rate among the district’s achievements in a report Monday to the School Board.

Chesterton High School averages around 500 senior students per year. There were 481 who graduated in June and Pettit said some finished up during the summer months.

The graduation rate has been rising. Chesterton High School had a 92.73% graduation rate in 2020.

“We’re very, very happy with the work that our teachers, counselors and principals have done,” Pettit said.

Pettit also gave credit to the Rise Academy program, an alternative program, for helping to improve the high school graduat