About 59 percent of D.C. students graduated in four years from high school last year, the Office of the State Superintendent announced Thursday.

The calculation comes after an Education Week projection that put the District’s “cohort” graduation rate — which tracks students from the ninth grade to get a more accurate figure — at 43 percent.

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