Jo Daviess County Schools Show High Graduation Rates

Jo Daviess County school districts fared better than their peers statewide on measures of student absenteeism and keeping students on track to graduate last school year. That data, along with graduation rates and other school performance measures, was included in the 2021 Illinois Report Card released last week. The report card shows that all six school districts in Jo Daviess County had a higher percentage of ninth-graders on track to graduate for the 2020-2021 school year than the statewide rate, which was 82%. All six districts also had lower rates of chronic absenteeism than the statewide rate, which was 21%. The state’s four-year graduation rate last school year was 86%. In Jo Daviess County, the Galena, Scales Mound and River Ridge school districts saw graduation rates above the state, while the East Dubuque, Stockton and Warren districts came in below the state.