State of the State address<\/a>, stating the state reached a record-breaking 92.2% for the 2024-25 school year.<\/p>\nThe rate increased 2.5% over the prior year and over 4.9% since 2021-22.<\/p>\n
Along with the statewide announcement, some Tampa Bay area counties released their own graduation rates report, with each of them breaking new records.<\/p>\n
\nHillsborough County graduation rates <\/p>\n
Hillsborough County Public Schools said the 2024-2025 academic year reached a 90.9% graduation rate \u2014 the highest graduation rate in district history.<\/p>\n
According to the county, the following high schools had the highest graduation rates in the district:<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay Tech High School \u2014 99.1%Newsome High School \u2014 98.6%Plant High School \u2014 98.6%Hillsborough Virtual School \u2014 98.5%Alonso High School \u2014 98.0%Sickles High School \u2014 97.5%Steinbrenner High School \u2014 97.2%Plant City High School \u2014\u00a097.2% <\/p>\n
According to the county, the following high schools saw the highest increase in graduation rates:<\/p>\n
Bowers Whitley Career Center \u2014 19.0% increaseSouth County Career Center \u201417.4 % increaseKing High School \u2014 9.1% increaseBlake High School \u2014\u00a08.9% increaseHillsborough Virtual School \u2014 8.1% increaseArmwood High School \u2014\u00a07.6% increaseRobinson High School \u2014\u00a06.8% increase <\/p>\n
\nPinellas County graduation rates <\/p>\n
Pinellas County Schools said it reached its highest graduation rate ever for the 2024-2025 school year at 93.4%. That means it outpaced the state graduation rate.<\/p>\n
These 17 high schools have earned graduation rates over 90% in 2024-25, with six schools having a rate at or above 99%, and one scored 100%:<\/p>\n
Boca Ciega \u2014 94.5%\u00a0Northeast \u2014 99.5%Clearwater \u2014 99%\u00a0Osceola Fundamental \u2014 99.8%Countryside \u2014 97.2%\u00a0Palm Harbor University \u2014 100%Dunedin \u2014 99.6%\u00a0Richard O. Jacobson \u2014 98.3%East Lake \u2014 99%\u00a0Pinellas Park \u2014 94%Gibbs \u2014 90.1%\u00a0Seminole \u2014 96.3%Hollins \u2014 93.9%\u00a0St. Petersburg \u2014 99.7%Lakewood \u2014 95.3%\u00a0Tarpon Springs \u2014 98.3%Largo \u2014 97.5 <\/p>\n
\nSarasota County graduation rates <\/p>\n
Sarasota County Schools officials said it reached a graduation rate of 94.3% for the 2024-25 school year, a 1.8% increase from the previous year.<\/p>\n
Additionally, all traditional public high schools increased their graduation rate in the 2025 school year. Here’s which ones:<\/p>\n
Pine View School \u2014 \u00a0100.0%Sarasota High School \u2014 96.5%Sarasota Military Academy \u2014 99.3%Booker High School \u2014 93.2%Imagine School at North Port \u2014 98.7%State College of Florida Collegiate School – Venice \u2014 100.0%Riverview High School \u2014 96.2%Venice High School \u2014 97.3%Oak Park School \u2014100.0%North Port High School \u2014 94.7%Suncoast Polytechnical High School \u2014 98.5%Sarasota Virtual Instruction Program \u2014 88.9%Sarasota Virtual Academy (Virtual Franchise) \u2014 100.0% <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Ron DeSantis made the announcement during his final State of the State address, stating the state reached…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-118035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}