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Class of 2025: Students at heart of Oregon’s graduation goal hit high school halfway mark
OPB’s Class of 2025 project explores a key question facing educators: can supportive teachers, engaging activities and high expectations overcome big barriers to graduation?
The Class of 2025 starts junior year
More than a decade ago, Oregon leaders established a goal that starting with the Class of 2025, 100% of students would complete high school successfully. Students in that class just started 11th grade.

Oregon’s goal for the Class of 2025 is approaching. So what’s a graduation rate anyway?
Graduation rates are a critical metric for measuring high school success, but one number doesn't always tell the whole story.

New governor, new goal: Is 100% high school graduation by 2025 still Oregon’s target?
John Kitzhaber, the governor who first announced that goal at his inaugural speech in January 2011, resigned from office in February 2015. Oregon’s new governor, Tina Kotek, announced a different graduation rate goal when she was running for office: to improve Oregon’s graduation rate to “90% for all student groups by 2027.” That’s 10% lower, two years later.

After more than 10 years, the Class of 2025 starts final climb to graduation
Since 2012, OPB has been on a journey — following the education of a group of students that all started at the same southeast Portland elementary school. They are the Class of 2025.

Class of 2025 students struggle with attendance
In the two years since students returned to school in-person, attendance rates across the state and the country have remained below where they were before the pandemic.

For Class of 2025 students, math more often means better grades, better understanding
Some of the students OPB has been following in the Class of 2025 spend twice as much time in math classes as their peers, an effort that gives students a better understanding — and better grades — than those who have math less often.
Oregon leaders wanted 40-40-20 by 2025. What does it mean and how close are we?
When Oregon set a long-term education goal starting with the Class Of 2025, OPB started following a group of students in that class. They just finished ninth grade.

Class of 2025: Scenes from freshman year
As the Class of 2025 begins its sophomore year, a look back at what students learned as freshmen.
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Class of 2025: Pandemic difficulties lead more students to summer high school classes
Summer school enrollment was up among Oregon high schoolers, including two students from OPB's Class Of 2025 project.