Of the 93,064 students in the class of 2015, 90.5 percent earned a Board of Education-approved diploma, compared with 89.9 percent of the 2014 cohort. The dropout rate for the class of 2015 was 5.2 percent, compared with 5.4 percent for the previous cohort.
Of the students who entered high school as first-time ninth graders in 2011:
▪ 47,923, or 51.5 percent, earned an Advanced Studies Diploma (including International Baccalaureate), compared with 50.6 percent of the previous cohort.
▪ 32,803, or 35.2 percent, earned a Standard Diploma.
▪ 1,467, or 1.6 percent, earned a Modified Standard Diploma.
▪ 1,998, or 2.1 percent, earned a Special Diploma.
▪ 1,218, or 1.3 percent, earned a GED.
▪ 4,876, or 5.2 percent, dropped out.
Source: VDOE