for teaching in the 4th highest district nationwide for graduating seniors, and the district with the highest graduation rate relative to its suburbs (10.2% higher). You are in Colorado Springs, aren't you? Heck, scratch that, I remember you're in Fort Collins. Well, same difference, I guess. I don't think of your area as particularly urban. Neither is Mesa, AZ; Phoenix is just one vast suburb. So, two very white areas with high graduation rates, and a third, San Jose, formerly with a high Hispanic population, now with a higher Asian-American population attracted by the Silicon Valley economy. I am surprised by the high graduation rates in San Francisco/Oakland, but given the high cost of housing there lately...perhaps I shouldn't be. In any event, even these relative oases are nothing to write home about, and are shameful compared to Western Europe and Japan/Korea.

Assume that these graduation rates are for ALL students--attending both public and private schools.