Nashville, TN—Today, the Tennessee Department of Education (department) announced the 2024-25 statewide graduation rate is 92.3 percent, breaking the previous record achieved in the 2023-24 school year at 92.1 percent.

“Year-over-year gains in the statewide graduation rate exemplify Tennessee’s commitment to ensuring students across the state make it to the graduation stage prepared for success after high school,” said Lizzette Reynolds, Commissioner of Education. ”Districts’ schools and public charters will continue using proven best practices and working with families to support students as they embark on their future endeavors.”

For the 2024-25 school year, the most notable takeaways from graduation data include the following:

• 1,892 more students graduated in the 2025 cohort compared to last year, for a total of 69,124 students graduating across the state.
• Benton County Schools, Clay County Schools, Fentress County Schools, Greene County Schools, Milan Special School District, Richard City Special School District, Smith County Schools, and Tennessee School for the Deaf are the top nine districts that had a graduation rate over 99 percent.
• Eighty-two districts graduated 95 percent or more of their students on time.
• Sixty-nine districts improved their graduation rates from 2024 to 2025, with eight districts improving by five percentage points or more.
• The Students with Disabilities student group demonstrated a three-percentage point increase in their graduation rate from 81 percent in 2023-24 to 84 percent in 2024-25.
• Sixty-eight schools finished the year with over a 99 percent graduation rate.
• Twenty-nine districts finished the year with over a 99 percent graduation rate for at least one of the following student groups: English Learners, Black, Hispanic, Native American, Economically Disadvantaged, and Students with Disabilities.

To advance academic achievement and prepare students for postsecondary success, districts continue to offer summer programming and tutoring supports for additional learning time, innovative college and career exploration, and access to early postsecondary opportunities.

For more information on graduation rates for individual districts and schools, please visit the department’s Data Downloads webpage.