The high school completion rate for School District 57 remains behind the provincial average but the gap is narrowing according to numbers released Wednesday by the education ministry.
In 2009-10, the district scored a completion rate of 72.4 per cent, compared to 79.7 per cent for the province as a whole. But the 7.3-percentage-point difference is a big improvement over the 14.6-point gap in 2006-07, when just 65.5 per cent had completed Grade 12.
Completion rates are determined by tracking the number of students entering Grade 8 who graduate within six years.
