Boston Public Schools is touting its highest-ever four-year graduation rate at 81.3% in 2025, even as the class was not required to meet a previous statewide testing standard to graduate.
“The 2025 graduating class was the state’s first to not be required to pass the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, or the MCAS, in order to graduate,” observed Boston.com. “Instead, the state’s K-12 Statewide Graduation Council released a new framework to set statewide standards.”
The new framework includes “capstone projects or portfolios, financial literacy lessons, and end-of-course tests administered and scored by the state,” according to another Boston.com article.
