Virginia high schools boast the 11th highest four-year graduation rate, according to researchers at Boston College.
Seventy-five percent of Virginia high schoolers graduate within four years. The national goal is for 90 percent of students to receive their diploma in the traditional four-year span.
This aim was signed to law with President Bill Clinton's signing of the 1994 "Goals 2000: Educate America Act."
One researcher identified the forced repetition of 9th grade as a reason for the low four-year graduation rate. Intensive testing in early high school years and has led to higher ninth and tenth grade attrition and lower four-year graduation rates, according to the Boston College researchers as reported by WINA.
New Jersey has the highest four-year graduation rate -- 86 percent. At 51 percent, South Carolina has the lowest.
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