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GRADUATION STATISTICS: Desert Pines rate lowest in county.(news)
BYLINE: LISA KIM BACH REVIEW-JOURNAL
At Desert Pines High School, less than half of the first senior class earned diplomas last year, the lowest rate of completion in the Clark County School District.
Only 45 percent of the 336 seniors enrolled at the beginning of the 2000-01 school year went on to graduate, according to figures from the Nevada Department of Education. Forty students at the school, which opened in 1999, received certificates of attendance. Those are given to seniors who complete all the required coursework but fail to pass the state's high school proficiency exam.
The statistics are setting off alarm bells at a time when the the district is pushing for increased student achievement and more state dollars to accomplish that goal.
They also come in the wake of findings by the U.S. Department of Education, which reported that Nevada is the second-worst state in the nation when it comes to producing high school graduates. About 22 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds in the…
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