Graduation rates at P.A.’s Catholic schools outpace province
Lorel Trumier, director of education with Prince Albert Catholic School Division, credited her division’s above-average graduation rates to the literacy programs employed at all levels. Through literacy interventions and level assessments, students have the potential to improve by three full reading levels in roughly 10 weeks.
“We always say graduation rates are impacted from Pre-Kindergarten all the way to Grade 12 and all of the things we do to support students in their learning is extremely important,” Trumier said.
She said enrollment is down slightly, but graduation rates in the division continue to improve.
According to Trumier, the division had a 96 per cent graduation rate among non-First Nations, Métis and Inuit students in the 2015-16 school year, with 91 per cent graduating on time. Provincially the average graduation rate is 89 per cent, with 85 per cent graduating on schedule.