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GRADUATION RATES: Students, schools answer bell.(news)

Las Vegas Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV)

| March 22, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2007 Las Vegas Review-Journal. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

BYLINE: LISA KIM BACH, REVIEW-JOURNAL

A school-by-school look at the Clark County School District's 2002 graduation rates shows the bottom line isn't as grim as it was in 2001.

In 2001, district statistics showed only 45 percent of the seniors at Desert Pines High School earned a diploma, the lowest graduation rate in Clark County. But in 2002, after a concerted effort to raise student performance, Desert Pines succeeded in graduating 60 percent of its senior class.

It's a figure Principal Roger Jacks is planning to improve with additional efforts to help students pass Nevada's mandatory proficiency exam and earn any required credits they might be lacking.

"That was the school's second graduating class and they had more exposure to our full…

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