Denver Public Schools had a 39 percent high school graduation rate, a dropout rate of over 10 percent, and only 1,324 students matriculated to college out of 73,873 in its 2006–2007 class.
NEW YORK—Less than a third of the city’s third- to eighth-graders are proficient in English and math according to test scores released by the state—but things are not as bleak as they seem.