Baltimore City Wire

About 70.34 percent of Northwestern High 12th graders advanced to the next grade level in 2017 and 53.28 percent of seniors graduated on time, according to the latest schools report card by the Maryland State Department of Education.

Just 10.49 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	59	59.2	64	63.6	>= 95
Grade 10	73.5	82.4	83.2	65	>= 95
Grade 11	60	62.3	78.6	61.8	>= 95
Grade 12	89.3	82	91.7	71.4	70.3

	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Three-year adjusted cohort	<= 5	<= 5	<= 5	<= 5	<= 5
Four-year adjusted cohort	61.61	60.49	66	53.95	53.28
Five-year adjusted cohort	65.07	69.81	68.42	57.96	-