NEW BEDFORD New Bedford High School on Thursday announced a historic increase in its graduation rate over the past decade.
According to NBPS data, four-year graduation rates are at 88.1% for 2020, a whopping 32.3 percentage point increase from 2010 rates of 55.8%. Four-year cohort graduation rates, where students remain in the school from grades 9 through 12, are at 90% for 2020, a 7.5% increase from 2019 rates of 82.5%.
For a district of more than 13,000 students and 2,600 students alone at the high school, this is a massive improvement from a decade ago. This is a story of persistence, Mayor Jon Mitchell said.
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Mattapoisett School Bus Driver Passes Away Suddenly
Some sad news from Mattapoisett this weekend. Brian Dean, a longtime bus driver for the Mattapoisett and Old Rochester school systems, passed away in his sleep Friday night into Saturday morning. He had driven his bus route as recently as Friday afternoon.
Dean had driven the children of Mattapoisett Bus 2 for decades and was very good at his job. In fact, Dean started driving for Mattapoisett 27 years ago last week.
Not only was Dean a safe and reliable driver, but many parents marveled at the fact that you could set your watch to his drop-offs and pickups, a very important trait for a school bus driver for young children.
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