Better Grade For Graduation Rate At Area Schools

Virginia education officials say 88 percent of students in the class of 2012 graduated after four years of high school. That’s an increase of more than 7-percent since 2008. Locally, on-time graduation rates improved in six of 12 Lynchburg-area public schools for the class of 2012. Lynchburg’s Heritage and EC Glass High Schools had the biggest increases at 7 percent and 4 percent respectively. Jefferson Forest High School in Bedford County had 92.6 percent of students graduate on time — the highest graduation rate of any public school in the area, but down 1 percentage point from 2011.