The Indiana Department of Education released graduation rate data Monday for school corporations for 2011-12. While some local school corporations continue to see their graduation rates go up, others saw a bit of a decrease in 2012 from previous years. Statewide, the Indiana graduation rate in 2012 was 88.38 percent, up from 86.61 percent in 2011. The federal rate was 87 percent. According to the IDOE website, “Because of differences between Indiana and federal reporting requirements, IDOE is reporting two different graduation rates. The Indiana graduation rate has been calculated pursuant to Indiana law and the federal rate has been calculated pursuant to federal requirements. Because the federal rate exempts fewer students from the cohort, the federal graduation rate is lower than the Indiana rate.” Despite previous requirements that Indiana report a federal rate, this is the first time Indiana has reported the federal rate, the website states. According to the IDOE website, in 2010 the graduation rate at Wawasee was 83.4 percent. It increased to 91.7 percent in 2011, but fell to 88.2 percent in 2012. Wawasee had 201 graduates in 2012. Warsaw’s graduation rate in 2010 was 83.9 percent. It increased to 88.8 percent in 2011, and then to 91.4 percent in 2012. Warsaw had 427 graduates in 2012. Tippecanoe Valley had a graduation rate of 80.4 percent in 2010; 84.4 percent in 2011; but fell to 77.8 percent in 2012. Valley had 123 students graduate in 2012. Whitko had a graduation rate of a high 90.6 percent in 2010, but fell to 80.7 percent in 2011. It then jumped back up to 86.3 percent in 2012, with 132 students graduating. Triton had 75 graduates in 2012, with a graduation rate of 93.8 percent. That was preceded by a graduation rate of 85.5 percent in 2011, and 89.7 percent in 2010. Manchester is nearing 100 percent with a graduation rate of 97.8 percent in 2012. It had 88 graduates last year. In 2011, it had a graduation rate of 96.4 percent, and 89.2 percent in 2010. At Wa-Nee School Corp., NorthWood had a graduation rate of 84.7 percent in 2012, and increased to 85.8 percent in 2011 and 94.7 percent in 2012. It had 188 graduates last year. Rochester stayed pretty steady. In 2010, 92.1 percent graduated. In 2011, 92.0 percent graduated, and in 2012, 92.9 percent graduated. It had 118 graduates in 2012.
