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The district鈥檚 graduation rate is improving, but leaders say it is still far too low. They know that the traditional way of calculating the rate鈥攚hich has produced a figure of 88 percent鈥� doesn鈥檛 capture the true dropout picture. A 2005 analysis, performed for the Indianapolis Star by a Johns Hopkins University researcher, concluded that only 39 percent of the freshmen who enter Indianapolis high schools leave four years later with a diploma鈥攐ne of the nation鈥檚 worst graduation rates for an urban district.
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