Colorado high schools are graduating the most four-year students in over a decade with the lowest dropout rate on record. And Summit High School is doing even better.
This past school year, 2024-2025, the graduation rate was 85.6% statewide, according to data released this week by the state education department. The dropout rate was 1.6%.
Summit High posted a graduation rate of 91.6% and a dropout rate of 1.5%.
Even the statewide attendance rate was creeping back to near-normal, 91.4%, after the disruptive roller coaster of COVID, from 2019-2020 through 2022-2023, when attendance fell to dismal new lows. Attendance is a big-picture view of how many enrolled students are in class throughout the school year.
Summit School District has also been creeping back to normal, although more slowly. Attendance and academics are both improving.
The district earned reaccreditation last school year after two years on the state’s “improvement plan” watchlist.
Summit’s attendance rate (90.9%) remains slightly below state average. The chronically absent rate, which tracks how many students miss at least one in 10 class days per school year, remains