{"id":14381,"date":"2026-03-09T12:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/?post_type=article&#038;p=14381"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:23:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:23:40","slug":"nyc-2025-graduation-rate-dips-fueled-by-declines-among-students-with-disabilities-and-english-learners","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/es\/articles\/nyc-2025-graduation-rate-dips-fueled-by-declines-among-students-with-disabilities-and-english-learners\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC 2025 graduation rate dips, fueled by declines among students with disabilities and English learners"},"template":"","class_list":["post-14381","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-afc-in-the-news","topic_tax-immigrant-students-english-language-learners","topic_tax-students-with-disabilities","misc_topic-graduation-requirements"],"acf":{"component_standard_hero":{"":null,"excerpt":"","short_description":"","button":{"":null,"link_type":"page","page":{"title":"Leer el art\u00edculo","url":"https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/newyork\/2026\/03\/09\/2025-nyc-graduation-rates-drop-english-learners-students-with-disabilities\/","target":"_blank"},"file":null,"title":""},"image":14382,"disable_share_icons":false},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<strong>Chalkbeat <\/strong>| Graduation rates dipped last year across New York City by just over 2 percentage points to 81.2% \u2014 the largest year-over-year decline in more than two decades \u2014 as officials have reinstated requirements that were loosened during the pandemic.\r\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1px4eze-0 egVxCn body-paragraph\">The data, which state officials posted quietly online without the customary public announcement or press briefing, reveals the graduation rates for the Class of 2025. Those students began ninth grade in September 2021, the\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/newyork\/2021\/9\/13\/22670866\/nyc-first-day-school-reopening\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/newyork\/2021\/9\/13\/22670866\/nyc-first-day-school-reopening\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\">first time all students were required to attend school<\/a>\u00a0in person after the pandemic hit.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1px4eze-0 egVxCn body-paragraph\">\u201cThey entered high school in a weird place,\u201d said Sarah Part, a senior policy analyst at Advocates for Children, a group that provides support and legal help to low-income families. \u201cIt is possible that some students started ninth grade not as prepared as they otherwise would have been.\u201d<\/p>","":null,"settings":""}}],"relationships":{"":null,"article_type":[83],"topics":[27,28],"misc_topics":[194]},"misc":{"search_results":{"":null,"excerpt":"","featured_image":14382}}},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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