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4-year graduation percentage hits record

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — State education officials say the percentage of Louisiana students graduating from high school in four years has hit an all-time high.

It was 78.1 percent in 2017, up from 77 percent a year earlier. The national average is 84 percent.

According to a news release Thursday from the state education department, the graduation rate has increased by nearly 6 percentage points since 2012, and by more than 12 percentage points since 2008.

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