Hispanic High School Graduation Rates at All-Time High

*This is great news! The question now is are Latino high school graduate moving o to college, and are they graduating with degrees? VL

By Greg Braxton, NBC News (2 minute read)

Latinos are receiving high school diplomas more than ever before, continuing a trend to tighten the achievement gap. The Obama administration touted several of its programs as instrumental in the increase.

Almost eight-in-ten (77.8 percent) of Hispanic students in the 2014-2015 academic year graduated from high school; this is a 6.6 percent jump since 2010, according to figures released by the White House.

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For the fifth year in a row, the National Center for Education Statistics has reported high school graduation rates across the U.S. have climbed. About 79 percent of students graduated from high school in the 2010-2011 academic year; it went up to 83.2 percent in 2015. READ MORE