Montgomery News

About 86.09 percent of Col. Zadok Magruder High ninth through 11th graders advanced to the next grade level in 2017 and 89.59 percent of seniors graduated on time, according to the latest schools report card by the Maryland State Department of Education.

Just less than 3 percent of students in the Class of 2017 dropped out of high school.

The average four-year graduation rate is 87.67 percent in Maryland.

	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Grade 9	80.4	81.2	82.4	79.2	83
Grade 10	88.1	85.9	87.1	84.9	84.7
Grade 11	90.2	89	87.4	88	92.1
Grade 12	>= 95	>= 95	>= 95	>= 95	>= 95

	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Three-year adjusted cohort	<= 5	<= 5	<= 5	<= 5	<= 5
Four-year adjusted cohort	88.94	90.11	90.22	89.39	89.59
Five-year adjusted cohort	90.17	92.48	92.2	92.42	-