By Colleen Flanagan, The Maple Ridge – Pitt Meadows News
Graduation rates for students in the Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows School district has increased once again.
For the 2022/23 school year, 98.1 per cent competed high school in SD42, above the provincial range of 83 to 94 per cent.
Since the 2015/16 school year, the graduation rate has increased every year except the 2018/19 year which had a slight decline before rising again.
In 2015/16, the graduation rate was 88.1 per cent, the following year it rose to 89.5 per cent, in 2017/18 it was 92.7 before falling the next year to 92.3 per cent – and it has been slowly rising each school year since.
The graduation rate for students with Indigenous ancestry is also above the provincial average. The 2022/23 school year saw 90.3 per cent graduate – the highest in eight years. The average range across the province is only 68 to 85 per cent.