The four-year graduation rate for Atlanta Public Schools was 90.5% in 2025, an increase of 1.9 percentage points from 2024. The graph below shows graduation rates by school for the 2024 and 2025 school years.

You can also utilize the year over year comparison to focus on the change in four-year graduation rate between 2024 and 2025.

Graduation rates are calculated by the Georgia Department of Education and use the Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate. Cohorts are based on the year students first enter ninth grade and the graduation rate is the percentage of these students who graduate within four years, adjusting for transfers. Five year graduation rates consider the number of students in that cohort who graduate within five years. The overall CCRPI graduation rate gives twice as much weight to the 4 year compared to the 5 year rate as shown below.

This is the first time since 2012, when cohort graduation rates became incorporated into CCRPI, that APS has crossed the 90% mark. This is also the third year in a row that APS has performed higher than the state average.