ATLANTA — Nearly nine out of every 10 Georgia high school students in the class of 2025 earned a diploma within four years, setting a record.

The 2025 statewide average was 87.2%, up nearly two percentage points from the prior year when it was 85.4%.

In Bulloch County, Southeast Bulloch High graduated 268 seniors — a 92% rate; Portal graduated 74 — a 91% rate; and Statesboro High graduated 400 — an 86% rate.

With one exception, Georgia's on-time graduation rate has increased every year since the class of 2011. That was the first class to earn diplomas under a new federally mandated counting system that required schools to account for students who transferred away and to base the grad rate on four years of high school.

State School Superintendent Richard Woods attributed the gains to st

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