Baltimore City Wire

About 48.75 percent of Excel Academy @ Francis M. Wood High ninth through 12th graders advanced to the next grade level in 2017 and 20.73 percent of seniors graduated on time, according to the latest schools report card by the Maryland State Department of Education.

Just 15 percent of students in the Class of 2017 dropped out of high school.

The average four-year graduation rate is 87.67 percent in Maryland.

	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Grade 9	6.9	36.4	36.2	24.3	53.4
Grade 10	21.4	40	39.1	61.4	41.9
Grade 11	29.5	44.7	41.5	39.4	39.1
Grade 12	59.3	63.3	53	67.6	53.8

	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Three-year adjusted cohort	<= 5	6	6.25	17.02	8.24
Four-year adjusted cohort	12.5	21.51	24.72	34.16	20.73
Five-year adjusted cohort	23.46	26.91	34.54	37.25	-