Juneau School District’s high school graduation rate went up after the first year of consolidating schools.

Superintendent Frank Hauser said at a Juneau Chamber of Commerce lunch Thursday that more than 96% of Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé students graduated in four years last school year.

The increase followed the first school year after the district consolidated its two high schools . The year before the consolidation, the rate was 93.8% at Juneau-Douglas and 90.44% at the former Thunder Mountain High School.

The rate for HomeBRIDGE, the district’s homeschool program, increased by 5.95% to 75%. And 4.24% more students at Yaaḵoosgé Daakahídi High School graduated in four years, placing the rate at 65.22%.

Hauser did not provide the district’s overall graduation rate

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