Schools

FCPS Has Second-Highest Grad Rate

Ed Week looks at nation's largest school districts.

Fairfax County Public Schools are ranked No. 2, behind only Maryland's Montgomery County, for the highest graduation rates for the nation's 50 largest school districts, according to a study published by Education Week magazine.

Ed Week studied the class of 2008, and found an 85.1 percent graduation rate for Fairfax and an 85.7 graduation rate for Montgomery. FCPS has 175,000 students in the system.

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