The charts suggest that high graduation rates don't always mean high test scores. In other words, even though a school may be graduating most of its seniors, that's no guarantee those seniors have the academic skills necessary to succeed in college or the workplace.
The school with the biggest discrepancy between graduation rate and test scores? Bruce Randolph, once lauded by President Obama but recently criticized by education author Diane Ravitch for, in her words, inflating its success. The school with the second-biggest discrepancy was North High, the subject of our feature.
Did those discrepancies grow or shrink this year? We may have to wait until college remediation rates -- the number of DPS grads who must take high school-level remedial courses in college before they can start earning college credit -- can tell the whole story.
More from our Education archives: "North High: DPS board member Arturo Jimenez calls for investigation into credit recovery."