{"id":5913,"date":"2026-03-31T21:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/tieuc\/?page_id=5913"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:51:06","slug":"high-school-graduation-rate-in-nct","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/tieuc\/dashboards\/high-school-graduation-rate-in-nct\/","title":{"rendered":"High School Graduation Rate in NCT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">High School Graduation Rate in NCT<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Geography:<\/strong>&nbsp;County-level results for&nbsp;<strong>24 North Central Texas (NCT) counties<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Population represented:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>High school graduation cohort<\/strong>&nbsp;(overall county graduation outcome).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Metric:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>High School Graduation Rate<\/strong>&nbsp;(reported as a percentage; raw data is stored as proportions and displayed as %).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Years available in this dashboard:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>2024\u20132025<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Missing data (not available in the source file):<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2024:<\/strong>&nbsp;Jack County<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2025:<\/strong>&nbsp;Hamilton County<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Summary &amp; Key Insights (from the raw data)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This dashboard provides a county-by-county view of graduation outcomes and helps identify where rates are strongest and where additional support may be needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Overall performance is high across most counties:<\/strong>&nbsp;The majority of counties fall in the&nbsp;<strong>upper-80% to upper-90%<\/strong>&nbsp;range in both years.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2024 results (23 counties reported):<\/strong><br>Graduation rates range from&nbsp;<strong>81.58% to 97.50%<\/strong>.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Highest:<\/strong>&nbsp;Stephens County (<strong>97.50%<\/strong>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lowest:<\/strong>&nbsp;Dallas County (<strong>81.58%<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2025 results (23 counties reported):<\/strong><br>Graduation rates range from&nbsp;<strong>81.27% to 97.49%<\/strong>.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Highest:<\/strong>&nbsp;Rockwall County (<strong>97.49%<\/strong>)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lowest:<\/strong>&nbsp;Dallas County (<strong>81.27%<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Year-to-year change (2024 \u2192 2025):<\/strong><br>Most counties change by only a few points, but some show notable shifts\u2014highlighting counties with improving outcomes and others that may need attention.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How to Use the Dashboard<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Use the&nbsp;<strong>Year<\/strong>&nbsp;filter to compare county performance in 2024 vs 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use the&nbsp;<strong>County<\/strong>&nbsp;filter to focus on one county and benchmark it against regional peers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reference the&nbsp;<strong>best\/lowest values<\/strong>&nbsp;to quickly understand the spread and identify outliers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong>&nbsp;When a county appears blank for a year, it indicates&nbsp;<strong>data not available<\/strong>&nbsp;in the source for that county-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<script type=\"module\" src=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/javascripts\/api\/tableau.embedding.3.latest.min.js\"><\/script>\n\n<section class=\"tsu-tableau-embed\"\n         aria-labelledby=\"grad-dashboard-title\"\n         aria-describedby=\"grad-dashboard-desc\">\n\n  <h2 id=\"grad-dashboard-title\">\n    High School Graduation Dashboard\n  <\/h2>\n\n  <p id=\"grad-dashboard-desc\">\n    Interactive dashboard showing high school graduation trends in North Central Texas.\n    Use the controls within the visualization to filter by year and region.\n  <\/p>\n\n  <tableau-viz\n    id=\"gradDashboard\"\n    src=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/shared\/N746DRSHK\"\n    toolbar=\"bottom\"\n    hide-tabs\n    style=\"width: 100%; min-height: 700px;\">\n  <\/tableau-viz>\n\n  <p class=\"tsu-tableau-fallback\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/shared\/N746DRSHK\"\n       target=\"_blank\"\n       rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n      Open the dashboard in a new tab\n    <\/a>\n  <\/p>\n\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High School Graduation Rate in NCT Summary &amp; Key Insights (from the raw data) This dashboard provides a county-by-county view of graduation outcomes and helps identify where rates are strongest &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":689,"featured_media":0,"parent":3625,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5913","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/tieuc\/author\/bkurdle\/","display_name":"Webmaster"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 4 weeks ago","modified":"Updated 1 week ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on March 31, 2026","modified":"Updated on April 20, 2026"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on March 31, 2026 9:34 pm","modified":"Updated on April 20, 2026 1:51 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/tieuc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/tieuc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/tieuc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/tieuc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/tieuc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5913"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/tieuc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5926,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/tieuc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5913\/revisions\/5926"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/tieuc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/tieuc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}