High school graduation rates remained largely steady overall for the class of 2020. And Nevada Union High School Principal Kelly Rhoden says that’s despite a year in which they had to abruptly shift to distance learning, midway through spring semester, due to the COVID shutdowns…

The grad rate for the Nevada Joint Union High School District, according to new state numbers, is around 86-percent, compared to 84-percent, statewide. Meanwhile, Rhoden says if campuses have to continue mostly with distance learning the rest of this school year, she says there is a greater potential impact, with less connectedness to the campus…

But the five-year cohort graduation rate, for students who began high school in 2015 and earned a diploma in 2020, was more impressive, at 91 and a half percent for the district, although down