Study Shows Disparity in Graduation Rates Between Cities and Suburbs
A recent study of the nation's 50 largest cities shows that there is typically a disparity in graduation rates between city school districts and the nearby suburban districts.
Two Tennessee cities, Nashville and Memphis, were included in this study. Nashville city schools were tied for the second highest graduation rate, 77 percent. Memphis ranked 14 with 61.7% of its students graduating.
These numbers compare with a 50-city average of 51.8 percent -- meaning almost half of students in these 50 school districts will not graduate high school.
The Tennessee cities also had a relatively small disproportion of disparity when compared with the national statistics. Memphis actually had the opposite disparity compared with the national average, meaning that the suburban graduation rate was less than the city graduation rate. That gap was 6.2 percent. Nashville suburban schools graduated 5.8 percent more students than its city schools.
The top disparities belong to Baltimore, Maryland and Columbus, Ohio. Both of these cities' schools had rates 40 percent below their suburban counterparts. The average for all 50 cities was a 17.4 percent disparity in favor of the suburban schools.
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