A breakdown of graduation rates from throughout Ocean County during the last four years.
New Jersey's statewide graduation rate climbed to 89.7 percent in 2015. The rate is based on the number of students who graduated within four years of beginning high school.
The graduation rate is measured by the number of students who started high school in fall of 2011 and finished by summer 2015 in each school or district. Graduation rates varied greatly between schools and districts across the state.
The Ocean County Vocational Schools - Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science and Performing Arts Academy - led the way in Ocean County with graduation rates of 98.6 and 98.2, respectively. However, this was the first time since at least 2012 that neither of the schools had a graduation rate of 100 percent.
Lakewood High School continued to have Ocean County's lowest graduation rate at 73.5, which was down slightly from its 74.3 rate in 2014. The school with the next lowest graduation rate was Central Regional High School, which also saw a slight drop in its rate from 85.8 in 2014 to 84.1 in 2015.
Here is how graduation rates have changed over the past four years in Ocean County:
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