Baltimore City Wire

About 85.99 percent of Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High ninth through 12th graders advanced to the next grade level in 2017 and 84.51 percent of seniors graduated on time, according to the latest schools report card by the Maryland State Department of Education.

Just less than 3 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	74.3	64	77.1	86.1	81.2
Grade 10	69.6	78.2	76.1	75.4	88.3
Grade 11	77.8	81.9	80.9	79.4	93.7
Grade 12	82.9	76.3	79	79.1	82.3

	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Three-year adjusted cohort	<= 5	<= 5	<= 5	<= 5	<= 5
Four-year adjusted cohort	78.93	83.33	77.97	79.94	84.51
Five-year adjusted cohort	83.51	87.47	85.11	87.16	-