Atlanta is the most educated city??

Accord to Forbes anyways.

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/education/student-resources/most-educated-cities/

"The cities topping our list do not just simply have the highest concentrations of college graduates; our ranking also considers high school dropout rates, graduate degree attainment rates, and gender and racial gaps in degree completion rates. Let’s take a look at some of the most educated cities the U.S. has to offer."

The top 2 cities are Atlanta, GA and Arlington, VA. Just looking at the info Forbes provides:

1. ATL - 60% Bachelor's completion of 25+ year old individuals, 27% of 25+ hold a Bachelor's, and a racial gap of 22%

2. ARL - 78% Bachelor's completion rate of 25+, 43% of 25+ hold a Bachelor's, and a racial gap of 10%

Weird.. Must be the HS graduation rates making a difference since it wasn't included for some reason.

ATL - 87%

ARL - "94% excluding Arlington Community High"???

https://educationinatlanta.com/atlanta-public-schools-achieve-highest-graduation-rate-surpassing-state-average-by-2-2/

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia/districts/arlington-county-public-schools/arlington-community-high-school-146510

I was confused on why they would exclude a school from the average.. ACH is a school for 'economically disadvantaged students' with 206 enrolled students in 9-12th grade and a completion rate of 53%. It's an outlier, I'm assuming, I can't remember the math from stats to confirm. This means ~100 people don't graduate.

How do 100 people negate the difference between the other stats that Forbes listed?

Submitted September 01, 2024 at 09:52AM by MeeloMosqeeto https://ift.tt/3Wiqf2l