did you ever consider dropping out when you were in high school? I never did. At my high school we started with about 300 and graduated about 250. That's roughly an 80-85% rate which is pretty good. John Hopkins says that the DM Public School District has a 65% graduation rate. On the surface that seems bad but compared to other school districts it is not. Houston, Fort Worth, Memphis, Denver, Dallas, Miami, L.A., Cleveland, New York, Milwaukee, Baltimore, and Detroit all have sub 50% graduation rates.