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Richmond superintendent: Class of 2025 graduation rate tops 80%; multilingual learners remain a concern
Summary
Richmond Public Schools’ superintendent reported a rise in graduation and SOL growth for 2025, noting record highs for Black and economically disadvantaged students while flagging attendance drops among multilingual learners linked to immigration enforcement fears.
Superintendent Camrys, Richmond Public Schools, told the Education and Human Services Standing Committee that the Class of 2025 achieved an 80% graduation rate, the district’s first time above that threshold in nearly a decade.
The superintendent said the district’s economically disadvantaged students reached an 84% graduation rate — the highest on record in state data going back to February 2008 — and Black students recorded an 88% graduation rate, also the highest on record in that dataset.
The superintendent…
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